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BY-LAWS AND GEKERAl RULES 



AND 



REGULATIONS 



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OF THE 



CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, 



AMENDED DECEMBER 29, 1858. 



JANUARY, 1859. 



feb-gork: 
PUDNEY & RUSSELL, PRINTERS 

No. 79 JOHN-STREET. 



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OAiiD OF EDtlCATiON, 

1859. 



PRESIDENT^ 

EICHAED WARKEN, 



l-^OMAS BOESB, 
Clerk. 

i. JOHN O'GRADY, Jr!, 

CHARLES McCAY. 
S. JARED A. TIMPSON, 

JAMES WATSON. 
B. HUGH G. CROZIER, 

ROBERT S. GOULD. 

4. THOMAS FITZGERALD, 
CHARLES J. DOUGHERTY. 

5. JAMES M. TUTHILL, 
WILLIAM B. EAGER, Jt. 

6. RICHARD BARRY, 
MICHAEL BEGG. 

'7. DANIEL COGSR, 

WILLIAM D. Andrews. 

S. WILLIAM BLOOMFIELD, 
WILLIAM TUCKER. 

t. Chas, e. gildersleve, 

JAMES W. FARR. 
10. DANIEL SLOTE, 

JOEL W. MASON. 
SL GEORGE WHITE, 

CHRISTIAN METZGAR. 



MYHoN rmcEs 

Deputy. 

WARD. 

12. ABRAHAM V. WILLIAMS^ 
ROBERT 0. GLOVER. 

13. AEONIJAH H. BRUMMELL, 
ALONZO G. REYNOLDS. 

14. ANDREW L. BYRNE, 
ANDREW H. GREEN. 

15. RICHARD WARREN, 
ERASTUS C. BENEDICT. 

16. ROBERT A. ADAMS, 
WILLIAM R. STAFFORD. 

17. JAMES CUSHING, Jr., 
SAMUEL CANTRELL. 

18. WILLIAM E. CURTIS, 
JAMES FAIRMAN. 

19. HUGH MoCABE, 
TERRENCE FARLEY, 

20. OLIVER H. LEE, 
NELSON J. WATERBURY. 

21. LAFAYETTE RANNEY, 
JOHN DAVENPORT. 

22. JOHN O'KEEFE, 
JAMES MARRINER. 



STANDING COmHTTEES 



OF THE 



BOAED OF EDUCATION, 

18 5 9. 



1. — Executive Committee on Free Academy. 
Mr. Williamg, Mr. Tuthill, 

Mr. Bloomfield, Mr. Curtis, 

Mr. Adams, Mr. Orozier, 

Mr. Ranney. 

2. — Executive Committee on Evening Schools, 
Mr. Gildersleve, Mr. Timpson, 

Mr. White, Mr. Slote, 

Mr Marriner, Mr. Byrne^ ,.;- 

Mr. Farley. 

3. — Executive Committee on Normal Schools. 

Mr. Eager, Mr. O'Keefe, 

Mr. Dougherty, Mr. Farr, 

Mr. Mason, Mr. Staflford, 
Mr. O'Grady. 

4. — Committee on the Annual Report. 
Mr. Green, Mr. Coger, 

Mr, Brummell, Mr. O'Keefe, 

Mr. Crozier, 



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5. — 'Finance Committee. 
Mr. Gushing, Mr. Glover, 

Mr. Fairman, Mr. Tucker, 

Mr. Coger. 

6. — Committee on New Schools. 
Mr. Tucker, Mr. Davenport, 

Mr. Lee, Mr. Watson, 

Mr. Waterbury. 

7. — 'Committee on Sites and School- Houses. 
Mr. Tuthill, Mr. Adams, 

Mr. Timpson, Mr. Farley, 

Mr. Gould. 

8. — Committee on School Furniture. 
Mr. Cantrell, Mr. Mason, 

Mr. Glover, Mr. Byrne, 

Mr. Metzgar. 

9. — Committee on Warming and Ventilation. 
Mr. Lee, Mr. Eager, 

Mr. Green, Mr. Benedict, 

Mr. Davenport. 

10. — 'Committee on Repairs. 
Mr. Coger, Mr. Tucker, 

Mr. Reynolds, Mr. O'Keefe, 

Mr. Metzgar. 

11.-— 'Committee on Supplies. 
Mr. Davenport, Mr. Lee, 

Mr. Gushing, Mr. Slote, 

Mr. Curtis. ^ 

12. — Auditing Committee. 
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Stafford, 

Mr. Brummell. Mr. Dougherty, 

Mr. Crozier, 



13. — Committee on By-Laws, Rules and Regulations. 

Mr. Aiiams, Mr. Waterbury, 

Mr. Curtis, Mr. Andrews, 

Mr. Marriner. 

14. — Committee on Elections and Qualifications. 
Mr. Stafford, Mr. Barry, 

Mr. McCabe, Mr. Andrews, 

Mr. Fitzgerald. 

15. — Committee on Correspondence. 

Mr. Byrne, Mr. Farr, 

Mr. Watson, Mr. White, 

Mr. Begg, 

16. — Committee on Course of Studies and School Books, 
Mr. Ranney, Mr. Eager, 

Mr. Williams, Mr. Bloomfield, 

Mr. Benedict. 

17. — Committee on Teachers. 
Mr. Fairman, Mr, Gildersleve^ 

Mr. Ranney, Mr. McCabe, 

Mr. Gould. 

f 18. — Committee on Salaries and Offices. 

Mr. Mason, Mr. 0' Grady. 

Mr. Watson, Mr. Cantrell, 

Mr. Reynolds. 

19.— Committee on Libraries. 
Mr. Waterbury, Mr. Green, 

Mr. Dougherty, Mr. Timpson, 

Mr. Williams. 

30. — Committee on Free Scholarships. 
Mr. Brummell, Mr. Farley, 

Mr. Fit?gerald, Mr. McGabe, 

Mr, Barry, 



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21. — Committee on Printing. 

Mr. Farr, Mr. Marriner, 

Mr. Fairman, Mr. Slote, 

Mr. Gildersleve. 

22.-^Committee on Annual Estimate and Apportionment, 

Mr. Benedict, Mr. O' Grady, 

Mr. Begg, Mr. Gould, 

Mr. McCay. 



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OARD OF BDUOATIOK. 

GOBNES OF GRAND AJXB ELM STEEETS, 



Clerk's Office, first floor,i, Room No. 1. 

City Superintendent's OffIck, Room No. 2. 

Pbesident's Office, Room No. 3. 

Office for Committee Meetings, Room No. 4. 

Janitor's Apartment, Room No. 5. 

Depository,..,. Basement stofy. 

Session Room,. ...Second story. 

Normal Schools, 3d andith storiesi. 

THOMAS BOESE, Clerk, 20 Spring-Street. 

Myron Finch, Deputy Clerk, 134 West 47th-Street. 

William E. Clarke, Finance Clerk, 22 Grove-Street. 

Thomas T. Bennett, Recording Clerk, 221 Sixth -Street. 

John Q. White, Messenger,, .267 Fiftli-Street. 

Charles E. Pierce, Depository, 117 Ludlow-Street. 

Charles H. Gilbert, Assistant, 87 Greenwich-Ave. 

Edwin Ooe. Assistant, 287 Elizabeth-Street. 

John Killale e , Porter, . 20S Elm-Street, 

Charles Reilly, Janitor, On the premises. 

SAMUEL S. RANDALL, City Superintendent of Schools, 

143 Lexington Ave^ 

Henry Kiddle, Assistant,. 190 East 19th-Street, 

Samuel W. Seton, " 37 Irving Place. 

William Jones, Jr., " 36 Orchard-Street. 

JossphE. Bell, Messenger,., 27 Essex-Street. 



AMNON MACYEY, Superintendent of School Buildings, 

523 Greenwich Street. 

Office and Workshop, ...94 Crosby-Street. 

John E. White, Inspector of Fuel, 43 Avenue C. 

Office, 294 Front-Street. 



BY-LAWS 



AND 



GENEEAL RULES AND REGULATIONS 

OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION". 

Akticle I. — Meetings. 

§ 1. All meetings of the Board of Education 
shall be held at the Hall of the Board, unless 
otherwise ordered by the Board. 

§ 2. Stated meetings shall be held on the sec- 
ond and third Wednesdays in January, the first 
Wednesday in August, and the first and third 
Wednesdays in every other month. Other 
meetings shall be held by adjournment, on the 
call of the President, or on the written requisi- 
tion of five members : provided, however, that 
the notices to members of the Board for such 
other meetings, held on the call of the President, 
or the written requisition of five members, shall 
distinctly state the special matter or matters to 



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be presented to the Board for its consideration 
at such meetings, and such special matter or 
matters shall be considered immediately after 
the reading of the minutes ; no other than such 
special matter shall be considered at such meet- 
ings, except by the consent of two thirds of the 
members present. 

§ 3. The hour of meeting shall be five o'clock 
in the afternoon. If a quorum shall not be 
present at fifteen minutes past five o'clock, the 
Board shall be declared to be adjourned until 
the day of the next regular meeting. 

§ 4. A majority of the vi^hole number of the 
Board shall be necessary to a quorum. 

§ 5. The Clerk shall cause a book to be kept, 
in which shall be entered the service upon mem- 
bers of notice of the meetings of the Board and 
its Committees ; specifying, in each case, whether 
the service was personal, or in what other man- 
ner, and verified by the initials of the person 
making the service. 

Article 2. — Officers. 

§ 6. The Officers of the Board shall be as 
follows : 

1. A President. 

2. A Clerk, a Deputy-Clerk, and as many as- 
sistants as the Board may direct ; all of whom 
shall be under the direction of the Clerk. 



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3. A City Superintendent of Schools, and one 
or more Assistant Superintendents. 

4. A Superintendent of School Buildings. 

§ 7. The President shall hold his office until 
the first day of January next after his election. 
The City Superintendent of Schools, and the 
Assistant Superintendents, shall each be chosen 
for a term of two years. All other officers shall 
serve during the pleasure of the Board. 

§ 8. All Officers, except the President, shall 
continue in office until their successors are cho- 
sen and qualified, unless sooner removed by the 
Board. 

Article 3. — Elections. 

§ 9. The President, the Clerk, the City Su- 
perintendent of Schools, the Assistant Superin- 
tendents, the Superintendents of School Build- 
ings, the several Executive Committees, and the 
Finance Committee, shall be chosen by ballot. 
Other elections shall also be by ballot, in case 
the number of persons in nomination is greater 
than the number to be chosen. All elections 
by the Board shall be made at stated meetings, 
and the votes of a majority of all the members 
present shall be necessary to a choice. 

§ 10. The Clerk shall procure from the Clerk 
of the city and county of New- York, as soon 
after each election for School Officers as practi- 
cable, a certified report of the persons chosen, 
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which report shall be presented to the Board at 
its first meeting in December, and shall be en- 
tered at length in its minutes ; and the Clerk 
shall immediately thereafter cause each person 
whose name is included in such report, to be 
served with a written notice, that unless he 
takes the constitutional oath of office, before the 
Clerk of the Board of Education, within fifteen 
days after the first day of January next ensuing, 
the office to which he is elected will, from and 
after the expiration of the said fifteen days, be 
vacant ; and the Clerk shall enter the date and 
manner of the service in the book required to 
be kept by the fifth section of the first article. 

§11. The Clerk shall deliver to the Clerk of 
the Common Council, at least fifteen days pre- 
vious to each election, a list of the School Offi- 
cers to be chosen thereat ; specifying which, are 
to be elected for full terms, and which to fill va- 
cancies ; and also if two or more trustees are to 
be chosen in any Ward to fill vacancies, the 
number of years which each will be entitled to 
serve. 

§ 12. Nominations by School Officers to fill 
vacancies in their number, shall be in writing, 
signed by a majority of the whole number for 
the Ward in office, and shall state that the nomi- 
nation was agreed to at a meeting of the Board 
of School Officers, at which a majority of the 
whole number in office were present. 



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§ 13. Every vacancy in a school office shall be 
filled at a meeting of this Board subsequent to 
the one at which the nomination is presented. 

§ 14. Every question touching the election or 
qualification of a member of this Board, and all 
nominations to fill vacancies in school offices, 
shall be referred to the Committee on Elections 
and Qualifications, who shall report thereon 
at or before the next stated meeting of the 
Board. 

Article 4. — Resignations and Removals. 

§ 15. A School Officer may resign his office 
by a written communication to the Board of 
School Officers of the Ward ; and the letter of 
resignation shall be filed with the Clerk of this 
Board, previous to any appointment to fill the 
vacancy. 

§ IG. No person shall be removed from office, 
except as otherwise provided in this Article, un- 
less by the vote of a majority of all the persons 
entitled to vote on the question. 

§ 17. In case any person elected or appointed 
as a School Officer, shall omit to take and sub- 
scribe before the Clerk the oath prescribed by 
the Constitution of the State within fifteen days 
after the commencement of the term for which 
he is elected, or from the time of his appoint- 
ment, the Clerk shall notify the School Officers 



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of the Ward that the office is vacant by reason 
of such omission. 

§ 18. If the seat of a Trustee shall be declared 
vacant by the Board of Trustees of the Ward, 
by reason of his omission to attend three succes- 
sive stated meetings of the Board, no appoint- 
inent shall be made to fill the vacancy, until a 
copy of the resolution of the Board of Trustees, 
declaring the vacancy and the cause, has been 
filed in the office of the Clerk of this Board. 

Artic LE 5 . — Committees. 

§ 19. There shall be the following Standing 
Committees : 

1. An Executive Committee on the Free 
Academy. 

2. An Executive Committee on Normal 
Schools. 

3. An Executive Committee on Evening 
Schools. 

4. A Committee on the Annual Report. 

5. A Finance Committee. 

6. A Committee on New Schools 

7. A Committee on Sites and School-Houses. 

8. A Committee on School Furniture. 

9. A Committee on Warming and Ventila- 
tion. 

10. A Committee on Repairs. 

11. A Committee on Supplies. 

12. An Auditing Committee. 



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13. A Committee on By-Law?, Rule? and 
Regulations. 

14. A Committee on Elections and Qualifica- 
tions. 

15. A Committee on Correspondence. 

16. A Committee on Course of Studies and 
School Books. 

17. A Committee on Teachers. 

18. A Committee on Salaries and Offices. 

19. A Committee on Libraries. 

20. A Committee on Free Scholarships. 

21. A Committee on Printing. 

22. A Committee on Annual Estimate and 
Apportionment. 

§ 20. The Executive Committees shall consist 
of seven members each ; all other committees of 
five members each, a majority of whom shall be 
necessary to a quorum. 

§ 21. The Executive and Finance Committees 
shall be elected by the Board, and all other com- 
mittees shall be appointed by the President, un- 
less otherv^ise ordered by the Board. 

§ 22. The Standing Committees shall be ap- 
pointed annually, at the first meeting in January, 
or as soon thereafter as practicable. 

§ 23. Any member of a Committee omitting 
to attend three successive meetings thereof, shall 



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cease to be a member, unless re-appointed by 
the Board. 



§ 24. Every report shall be signed by a ma- 
jority of the Committee, and shall contain a 
statement of facts, with their opinion in writing; 
and no report shall be made by a Committee un- 
less the subject thereof shall have been considered 
at a meeting of which all the members had been 
notified. When the report of the Committee is 
made, a minority of the Committee may also 
present their views in writing. 

§ 25. When a subject involving an appropria- 
tion for the payment of a claim for work or 
materials previously done or furnished, shall be 
referred, the Committee shall require proof of 
the correctness thereof. 

§ 26. Each Standing Committee shall keep 
minutes in writing of its proceedings, including 
the names of the members present, which shall 
be recorded by the Clerk of the Board, in a book 
to be kept by him for the purpose. 

Article 6. — Clerk's Office, 

§ 27. The Clerk shall keep the accounts of the 
expenditures for support of the Free Academy, 
the Normal Schools, the Evening Schools, and 
the Day Schools, and for the several depart- 
ments, respectively, in such manner as to show 



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separately the amounts expended on account of 
each, for salaries, supplies, repairs, rents, arti- 
cles furnished from the Depository, and other 
items. 

§ 28. TLe Clerk shall, as soon as practicable 
after the expiration of each quarter, submit to 
the Board a printed statement exhibiting the 
amounts of the several kinds of expenditure for 
the Free Academy, and each school and depart- 
ment, except that the statement for the Evening 
Schools shall be submitted at the close of each 
term. 

§ 29. In keeping the accounts, and making 
the returns above required, the clerk shall debit 
each school and department with the cost of all 
books and other supplies furnished from the 
Depository. 

§ 30. The Clerk shall also keep an account, 
showing the aggregate expenditures of each 
Ward in the several items specified in the first 
section. 

§ 31. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of this 
Board, to examine and audit all pay rolls for 
teachers' salaries and other bills, and to certify 
upon the same, before payment, that the same 
are in conformity with the By-Laws and Regu- 
lations of this Board. 

Article 7. — Payments. 

§ 32. The principal of the Free Academy, of 
each Normal School, and of the highest Male 



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School in any school-building, for his own school, 
the other schools in the same building, and such 
Primary and Female Schools as shall be assigned 
to his charge for that purpose by the Board of 
Trustees of the Ward, shall prepare monthly pay- 
rolls for the teachers and janitors employed 
therein. Each pay-roll shall embrace the names 
of the persons included therein, the number of 
days for which they are entitled to pay, and the 
rates ; the amounts to be paid to them severally, 
with blanks for their signatures in acknowledg- 
ment of the receipt thereof, and the total 
amount of the payments. It shall be delivered 
to the Chairman of the appropriate Board or 
Committee, on or before the first day of the next 
ensuing month, and shall be certified and audited 
by the proper officers, and filed with the Clerk 
of this Board, within five days thereafter. The 
Clerk shall thereupon examine the pay-roll, and, 
on or before the second Saturday in the same 
month, deliver a warrant for the correct amount 
to the principal, who shall proceed forthwith to 
make the payments ; and such pay-roll, with the 
payments vouched by the signatures of the per- 
sons to whom they have been made, and a report 
by the principal whether the amounts have in 
all cases been truly paid without deduction, shall 
be filed with the Clerk of this Board on or 
before the third Saturday in the month. 

§ 33. The Clerk of this Board shall prepare 
similar pay-rolls for all other salaries and wages, 
and submit the same to the Auditing Committee 
on or before the first day of the month. The 



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Committee shall audit the pay-roll within five 
days thereafter ; and the Clerk, on or before the 
second Saturday in the month, shall make the 
payments and file the pay-roll with vouchers like 
those required in case of payments to teachers. 

§ 84. Other payments shall be made by the 
Clerk on the first and fifteenth days of every 
month, unless a different time for the payment is 
provided by a written contract made under the 
authority of this Board. But no bill shall be paid, 
unless it shall have been left with the Clerk, 
properly certified and audited, at least one week 
before the pay-day. Nor shall any bill be paid, 
unless it be duly certified to have been passed at 
a meeting of the proper Board of School Officers 
or Committee of this Board, at which a quorum 
was present. 

§ 35. No payment shall in any case be made, 
except in pursuance of an appropriation. 

§ 36. Any person having a demand against 
School Officers may leave his bill with the Clerk 
of this Board, who shall deliver such bills, 
weekly, to the chairman of the Boards and Com- 
mittees by which they must be certified. 

§ 37. Pay-rolls, as hereinbefore provided in 
section 1 of this Article, shall be prepared by 
the principal of each Evening School, at the 
end of each term of such schools, and presented 
to the Chairman of the Executive Committee on 

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Evening Schools, Avhich Committee shall audit 
the same, and within five days thereafter file the 
same with the Clerk of this Board, who shall 
examine and pay the same, within five days 
thereafter, as other teachers' pay-rolls are to be 
examined and paid : Provided, however, that the 
principal of the male department of each Even- 
ing School shall prepare and present the pay-roll 
for all teachers of Evening Schools employed in 
the same building with himself. 

Article 8. — Teachers. 

§ 38. The rules and regulations under which 
the Trustees of the several wards shall contract 
and employ teachers and janitors are hereby 
established as follows ; and the same shall also 
apply to all cases of teachers employed in the 
Free Academy and in the Normal and Evening 
Schools : 

1. No teacher shall be employed in any Ward 
School who shall not have, at any time of such 
employment, the requisite license or certificate of 
qualification, or who is within four degrees of 
relationship, either by blood or marriage, to any 
School Officer entitled to act upon the question of 
the employment or payment of such teacher ; 
but this provision shall not be construed to pro- 
hibit the continuance of a teacher legally in office, 
as such, who is related to any School Officer 
already elected or appointed. 

2. Upon the employment or increase of the 
salary of a teacher or janitor, the Board of Trus- 



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tees or Committee shall file with the Clerk a 
copy of the resolution authorizing the same, cer- 
tified by its Chairman and Secretary, to have 
been adopted at a meeting thereof at which a 
quorum was present. 

3. The salaries of teachers shall commence 
at the times they respectively enter upon their 
duties. 

4. No retrospective increase of salary shall in 
any case be allowed. 

5. No teacher absent from duty during a ses- 
sion shall be paid for that day's service, unless 
the absence shall be excused by the Board of 
Trustees, or by the Committee of this Board, 
under whom the teacher is employed. 

6. No leave of absence on pay for a longer 
period than one month shall be valid, unless con- 
firmed by this Board. 

7. It shall be the duty of every principal to 
keep a register of the attendance of teachers, in 
which shall be entered daily the time of the ar- 
rival and departure of each teacher, and every 
absence from duty, with the reason for such ab- 
sence. 

8- A report of all absences of teachers from 
duty, specifying the case in which the absences 
have been excused, as above provided, shall be 
made by the principal of each department, and 
annexed to every pay-roll. 

9. It shall be the duty of every teacher to 
occupy the whole of each school session in the 
purposes of instruction, or the making of entries 
necessary to be made at the time. 



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10. No teacher shall make or contribute to- 
wards any gift to a school officer or superin- 
tendent ; nor shall money or other thing be, in 
any case, collected or taken from a pupil for 
the purpose of presenting a gift or testimonial to 
a teacher, school officer, or superintendent, or 
for any other purpose, unless the same shall be 
for the sole benefit of the pupils, and previously 
sanctioned by the proper Board of Trustees, or 
by this Board. 

11. Every principal shall report to the proper 
Board of Trustees, or to this Board, all viola- 
tions by teachers of the rules and regulations of 
this Board of which the principal may be cogni- 
zant ; and each report of absences annexed to a 
pay-roll shall contain an allegation that the prin- 
cipal has duly reported each case of the viola- 
tion by a teacher included in the pay-roll, of the 
rules and regulations of this Board. 

Article 9. — Superintendents of Schools. 

§ 39. The office of the City Superintendent of 
Schools shall be in the Hall of the Board of Edu- 
cation. 

§ 40. It shall be the duty of each Assistant 
Superintendent, under the direction of the City 
Superintendent, to visit and examine schools, to 
assist in the examination of teachers, and to per- 
form such other service as the City Superintend- 
ent may require, in his aid, in the several duties 
devolved on him by law, or by the regulations 
of this Board. 



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§ 41. The City Superintendent shall grant 
certificates of qualification to teachers in the 
form prescribed by this Board, inserting in each 
certificate the grade in which the teacher is to 
be employed, and shall keep in his office, in a 
book prepared for that purpose, a record of the 
name of each person receiving such certificate, 
with the grade in which such person may by 
such certificate be employed as teacher. 

Article 10. — Duties of Commiitees. 

§ 42. It shall be the duty of the Finance Com- 
mittee to submit to the Board, at its first meet- 
ing in every month, an estimate of the amount 
which will be required from the City Treasury 
on the first of the next month ; and the balance 
or deficiency which may result from any differ- 
ence between said estimate and the actual 
drafts, shall be carried into the estimate for the 
next month. 

§ 43. The Auditing Committee shall examine, 
audit, and certify all bills for incidental expenses, 
and report thereon to the Board of Education ; 
and on the approval of such report, the bills 
shall be paid by the President and Clerk, as re- 
quired by law, and it shall be their duty to ex- 
amine the accounts in the Clerk's office, and re- 
port thereon semi-annually, or oftener, if neces- 
sary. All reports of this Committee shall be 
printed. 

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^ 44. The Committee on Sites and School 
Houses : 

To this Committee shall be referred all plans 
and estimates for building school-houses ; and 
no new school-house shall be erected until the 
plans and specifications thereof have been con- 
sidered by this Committee, and approved by the 
Board. 

§ 45. The Committee on the Warming and 
Ventilation of School-Houses, shall make them- 
selves acquainted with the best method of warm- 
ing and ventilating school houses, by corres- 
pondence with the school organizations of other 
cities, either directly or through the City Su- 
perintendent ; and it shall be their duty to 
recommend to this Board plans and apparatus 
for warming and ventilating each school before 
any new appropriation shall be made for that 
purpose. 

§ 46. The Committee to prepare the Annual 
Report : 

It shall be the duty of this Committee to pre- 
pare the Annual Report and present it to the 
Board, in conformity with sub-division 10, of 
section 2, of the School Laws of 1851, relative 
to the powers and duties of this Board ; and 
they shall include in such report the plans of 
all new school-buildings erected during the 
year. 



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§ 47. The Committee on the Annual Estimate 
shall report on or before the first meeting in 
October, the probable amount required to be 
raised during the year, for the purposes of meet- 
ing the current annual expenses of Common 
School instruction ; which report shall be printed. 

§ 48. It shall be the duty of the Printing 
Committee to advertise for estimates for the 
printing and binding of the books, journals, and 
documents of the Board. The specifications to 
require, and the estimates to state, the price 
for composition per thousand ems, and the price 
for press-work per token ; and the paper for such 
documents to be of uniform quality, to be fur- 
nished under the same contract at so much per 
ream. Such estimates to be reported to the 
Board, and the Committee, when authorized, to 
contract for the printing and binding of the 
same. 

§ 49. The usual number to be printed, of any 
document, shall be five hundred copies, unless 
otherwise ordered by the Board. 

§ 50. No Committee of this Board shall incur 
any liability, unless an appropriation to cover 
the same shall have been first made by resolution 
of this Board. 

§51. All other committees shall report the 
matters referred to them by the Board, and shall 
report the facts as well as their conclusions from 



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them. It shall be a privileged motion to in- 
struct any Committee to report by a certain 
day. 

Article 11. — Applications. 

§ 52. xA.ll applications for alterations or repairs 
on school premises shall be made to the Board of 
Education, in writing, and signed by a majority 
of the School Officers making the same, before 
the work is contracted for or entered upon, and 
shall, with reasonable detail, state the nature 
and extent of the alteration, and the time and 
expense necessary to complete the same ; and no 
money shall be paid by the Board of Education 
for the purchase of any school site, or for any ad- 
ditions thereto, or for the erection, fitting up, 
repairs, alterations, or improvements of any 
school-building, or the furnishing thereof, where 
the expense shall exceed the sum of two hundred 
dollars, unless a statement in writing shall have 
been presented to the Board of Education, to- 
gether with a copy of the working drawings, 
plans, and specifications of the work to-be done, 
or improvement proposed to be made, shall have 
been duly filed with and approved by the Board 
of Education, and an appropriation shall have 
been made therefor by the said Board, and the 
title to said property vested in the Mayor, Al- 
dermen, and Commonalty of the city of New- 
York. 

Article 12. — Apportionment. 

$ 53. Before the school moneys, apportioned 
to any school, shall be paid, the Trustees, Mana- 



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gers or Directors thereof, shall furnish, in writ- 
ing, to the Board of Education, a detailed state- 
ment, showing the names and salaries of all 
teachers in such school, the amount necessarily 
expended annually for books and stationery for 
such schools — for rent of school premises — for 
fuel — for labor and any other items of necessary 
legal expenses, to the end that the Board of Edu- 
cation may authorize the payment of only such 
sums as shall be sufficient to provide for such 
necessary and legal expenses ; and in case of any 
deficiency in the sums so apportioned to meet 
the necessary and legal expenses of public edu- 
cation in any schools, the Trustees, Managers 
and Directors of such school shall apply to the 
Common Council to supply such deficiency ; and 
before the Board of Education shall certify to 
the Common Council the cause of such deficien- 
cy, and that the same was unavoidable, the Trus- 
tees, Managers, and Directors of such school 
shall furnish to the Board of Education a full 
and detailed statement of all the expenses to 
which the sums apportioned and paid to such 
schools have been applied, and otherwise, if ne- 
cessary, satisfy the Board that the said deficiency 
was unavoidable. 

Artic le 13. — Vacations. 

§ t54. The following holidays and vacations 
shall be granted to the Schools, viz. : Every Sat- 
urday throughout the year ; the day celebrated 
as the anniversary of American Independence ; 
Thanksgiving Day ; the first day of May ; the 



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twenty-fifth day of December, New- Year's Day, 
and the intermediate days ; and the interval be- 
tween the last Friday of July and the first Mon- 
day in September. No other holidays or vaca- 
tions shall be allowed, except by a special vote 
of the Board. The President of the Board, how- 
ever, shall have authority to suspend the schools 
in case of any sudden emergency, but his action 
in the matter shall be submitted to the Board, 
for their approval, at the earliest opportunity. 

This By-Law shall not prevent the School 
Officers of a Ward from closing the schools, 
upon a particular occasion, for a single day, if 
they think it necessary. 

The school on Eandall's Island is except- 
ed from the eifects of this By-Law, and its ses- 
sions will continue as heretofore. 

Article 14. — Annual JReport. 

§ 55. The Annual Report required by law of 
the Trustees, Managers and Directors of Schools, 
shall be made in conformity with the following ; 
blanks for which shall be provided by the Board 
of Education : 

Report 

Of the to the Board of Education 

of the city of New-York, in pursuance of the 4tk 
subdivision of section 10 of chapter 386 of the 



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Laws of 1851, for the year ending January 1st, 
18 . 

1st. The whole number of schools within the 
jurisdiction of the said and the 

length of time each school has been kept open, is 
as follows, to wit : 

for Males, which ha been kept open 
for Females, " " " 

for Primary, " " " 

The name and character of each will be found 
described in subdivision 5 of this Keport. 

2d. The whole number of Scholars over four, 
and under twenty-one years of age, which were 
taught in the during the year pre- 

ceding the first day of January, 18 , is 

3d. The average number that have actually 
attended the school of during the 

year preceding the first day of January, 18 , 
obtained in the manner prescribed by law, is 

and for this, reference is 
made to the attested certificates of the teachers 
submitted herewith. 

4th. Detailed statement of the amount of 
moneys received for the said schools respectively, 
during the last year, from the Chamberlain of 
the City, is $ 

5 th. Detailed statement of the purposes for, 
and the manner in which, the same has been ex- 
pended for each of the following Schools, divid- 
ing pro rata to each School such expenses as 
are necessarily included in the aggregate surr. 
for more than one School, as follows : 
For School Books, 
" Stationery, 



so 

For Fuelj 
" Other supplies, 
" Cleaning, 
" Ordinary repairs, 
" Extraordinary repairs. 
To each of the following named teachers, to 
wit: 

6th. The particular account of the state of 
each School under the care of ' is 

as follows : 

7th. The titles of all Books used. 
8 th. The outstanding liabilities. 
And on account of which School, as follows, 
to wit : 

9th. Particular account of the property and 
affairs of each School under the care of 
is as follows : 

FIRST — OF THE REAL ESTATE. 

Size of the lot. 

In whom is the title vested. 

Character and size of the School Building. 

Its cost. 

When built, 

SECOND— OP THE PERSONAL PROPERTY. 

Library. 

School Books. 

Maps. 

Globes. 

Philosophical apparatus. 

Objects of Natural History. 

Whence derived. 



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Article 15, — Miscellaneous, 

§ 56. No pupil will be allowed to attend any 
of the Schools, unless residing in the city of 
New-York. 

§ 57. All appropriations for the establishment 
of new schools, the purchase or leasing of anj' 
real estate, or for the erection of any school- 
house, shall require a majority of the votes of 
all the members elected to the Board of Educa- 
tion. 

§ 58. The Clerk shall cause every Commis- 
sioner to be personally notified in writing of all 
the meetings of the Board, which notice shall be 
accompanied by a copy of that clause of the 
School Law which provides for declaring the 
office of a Commissioner vacant for non-attend- 
ance. It shall also be the duty of the Clerk to 
notify the Chairman of each Committee of the 
Board of the fact of any reference made to such 
Committee by the Board, and transmit to such 
Chairman, or to the Committee at its first meet- 
ing thereafter, the subject matters referred, as 
the same were presented to the Board. 

§ 59. Any Board of Ward Officers, Inspectors 
or Trustees, may, in writing, recommend to the 
Board of Education any changes in or additions 
to the General Rules and Regulations. 

^ 60. No By-Law, or General Rule and Regu- 
lation, shall be altered or adopted, without the 

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report of a standing or select Committee thereon 
after reference to this Board. 



Article 16. 

For the Care, Government and Management of the 
Free Academy. 

§ 61. The Executive Committee for the care, 
government, and management of the Free Acad- 
emy, shall have, under the direction and By- 
Laws of the Board, the special care, government 
and management of the Academy, and the charge 
of its buildings and property, and shall order the 
purchase, by the Clerk of the Board, of such 
articles of books, stationery and supplies, and 
make such repairs, as may be necessary, and they 
shall make such rules to secure economy and ac- 
countability, and to regulate the management of 
the Institution, as may be necessary, and shall 
recommend to this Board, for its adoption, such 
by-laws for the government and management of 
the Institution as they may deem requisite. They 
shall examine the books and reports, and inquire 
into the progress of the students, and the charac- 
ter of the discipline administered; and on or be- 
fore the second Wednesday of January in each 
year, shall prepare and present to the Board the 
Annual Report required by the 7th subdivision 
of the 3d section of the School Law of 1851. 

§ 62. Tke Principal of the Free Academy 
shall have the immediate supervision and man- 
agement of the Free Academy, and of the gov- 



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ernment therein, under the by-laws and regula- 
tions of the Board of Education and Executive 
Committee. He shall see that the rules and disci- 
pline are enforced steadily and strictly. All 
delinquencies and misconduct shall be reported 
to him by the Professors and Tutors ; and all 
punishment shall be imposed by his direction, 
and shall be recorded, together with abstracts 
of the merit rolls, in the books of the Institution.. 
He shall keep a full record of the absence of the 
instructors from any of their duties, and report 
the same, with the cause, to the Executive Com- 
mittee, monthly. One of the Faculty shall be 
appointed Vice-Principal by this Board; and in 
the absence of the Principal, or while he is 
engaged in instruction, the Vice-Principal, and 
in the absence of both, the oldest other member 
of the Faculty, in the order of academic sen- 
iority in attendance, shall perform the duties of 
Principal. 



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Organization of the Free Academy. 



Depart- 
ments. 



Subjects. 



Collateral 

Subjects. 



Philoso- 
phies. 



English 
Lansuage. 



Ancient 
Lunguages. 

Modern 



Moral Pkilosophy. 
Intellectual Philosophy, 
Political Philosophy. 

English Language and Literature, 
Comprising General Grammar, 
English Grammar, Etymology, 
Synonymy, Composition. 

Latin Language and Literature. 
Greek Language and Literature. 

French Language and Literature. 
German Language and Literature. 



l^anguages. ^ gp^nish Language and Literature. 



History 

and Belles- 

Lettres. 



Pure 
Mathe- 
matics. 



Mixed 
Mathe- 
matics. 



{ History. 

(' Composition, Ehetoric, Oratory. 

( Algebra. 

Geometry. 
I Trigonometry and its Applica- 
) tions. 

Analytical Geometry. 

Descriptive Geometry. 

Differential and Integral Calcu- 
li lus. 

( Analytical Mechanics. 
I Acoustics. 
} Optics. 
I Astronomy. 
\^ Civil Engineering. 



> Drawing. 



Physical 
Sciences. ^ 



Physics. 



r Light— Heat. 
) Electricity-Magnet- 
S ism. 
V Electro-magnetism. 



( Inorganic — Organic. 
Chemistry. < Physiological, 
( Agricultural. 



Natural 
History. 
)> Physiology. 
Anatomy. 
Hygiene. 



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§ 63. The above naned subjects shall be taught 
in the Free Academy by the following Academic 
Officers : 

The Principal, who shall be Professor of 
Moral, Intellectual, and Political Philosophy. 

A Professor of English Language and Litera- 
ture. 

A Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages 
and Literatures. 

A Professor of French Language and Litera- 
ture. 

A Professor of German Language and Litera- 
ture. 

A Professor of Spanish Language and Litera- 
ture. 

A Professor of History and Belle-Lettres. 

A Professor of Pure Mathematics. 

A Professor of Mixed Mathematics. 

A Professor ot Chemistry and Physics. 

A Professor of Natural History and Physi- 
ology. 

A Professor of Drawing. 

An Adjunct Professor in the Department of 
Philosophies. 

An Adjunct Professor in the Department of 
Mathematics. 

And as many Tutors as may be from time to 
time required. 

§ 64. The Faculty shall consist of the Profes- 
sors who, conformably to § 63, are at the head of 
the following departments : 

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Philosophies. 
English Language. 
Ancient Languages. 
Modern Languages. 
History and Belles-Lettres. 
Pure Mathematics. 
Mixed Mathematics. 
Physical Sciences. 

They shall meet at the Academy during term 
time, semi-monthly, at such time as shall be fixed 
by them, and at such other times as they may be 
called together by the Principal, to consult and 
act on such matters as may be brought before 
them. They shall keep minutes of their pro- 
ceedings. The Principal shall be President of 
the Faculty, and they shall appoint one of their 
number as Secretary. Each member shall be 
entitled to but one vote, whatever be the number 
of subjects and instructors represented by him 
in his department ; but when matters relating to 
a collateral department shall be under considera- 
tion, its professor shall be duly notified to be 
present, and shall have the rights and powers of 
members of the Faculty at such meetings. All 
communications from the Academy to the Ex- 
ecutive Committee shall be forwarded through 
the Faculty and be entered on their minutes ; 
but any officer or instructor in the Academy may 
communicate direct with the Board of Education. 

§ 65. The Professors shall have the general 
superintendence of everything pertaining to in- 
struction in their respective departments, and' 



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shall be responsible for the successful prosecution 
of the studies prescribed for their professor- 
ships, and shall do all in their power to pro- 
tect and advance the interests intrusted to their 
charge. 

^ QQ' There shall be a Registrar, who shall 
have charge of the books, records and reports of 
the Institution, and the same shall be at all times 
open to the inspection of the members of the 
Faculty and of the Executive Committee. He 
shall also have charge of the stationery provided 
for the Academy, and shall issue the same on the 
written order of the Principal, and he shall keep 
accounts of the receipt and delivery thereof; he 
shall also be the Clerk of the Academy and As- 
sistant Librarian ; he shall also have charge of 
the library, and shall arrange and catalogue the 
same, and shall superintend and record the deliv- 
ery and return of the books, and perform such 
other duties as may be required by the Com- 
mittee. He shall be appointed by the Executive 
Committee. 

§ 67. The engagement of all Professors, 
Teachers, and Officers, in the Free Academy, 
shall be terminable at the pleasure of either 
party, on giving notice, and the salary shall 
thereupon immediately cease ; and the Execu- 
tive Committee are authorized to give said 
notice on the part of the Board of Education, 
in case of any instructor not bearing the title of 
Professor. 



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§ 68. On or before the third Wednesday of 
September, the Faculty shall make a report to 
the Board of Education, bearing date on the 
day of the annual commencement, of the state 
and progress of the Academy during the prece- 
ding year, the names of all the students admitted, 
and of those dismissed, and such other matters 
as may be required by the Board, or as may be 
deemed expedient by the Faculty. 

Admission of Students, their Classification and 
Studies. 

§ 69. No student shall be admitted to the 
Academy unlegs at the commencement of the 
next term he will be fourteen years of age, and 
have attended the Common Schools for twelve 
months, and shall have passed a good examina- 
tion in Spelling, Heading, Writing, English 
Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Elementary 
Book-keeping, History of the United States, 
and Algebra, as far as quadratic equations, in- 
clusive. 

§ 70. No candidate shall be examined for 
admission unless he shall present to the princi- 
pal of the Academy a certificate in the form 
prepared by the Executive Committee, signed 
by the Principal of the School or Schools of 
which he has been a member, and specifying the 
age of the candidate, the Common Schools of 
this city which he has attended, the length of 
time in each, and when. If the number quali- 
fied for admission shall be more than can be 



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admitted, the preference shall be given to those 
who have attended the Common Schools the 
greater period. 

§ 71. At either of the regular examinations, 
members may be admitted to one or all the classes, 
to pursue the studies of any one or more depart- 
ments, provided they shall have attended the 
Common Schools the requisite period — shall be 
of the proper age — shall pass the proper exami- 
nation in the requisite for admission, and an 
examination satisfactory to the faculty, in the 
previous studies of the class or departments to 
which they are to be admitted. 

§ 72. The examination of candidates for ad- 
mission shall take place immediately after the 
general examination in July, and at such other 
time or times as shall be fixed by the Executive 
Committee, and shall continue at the same hours 
until concluded. No person shall be present at 
the examination except the instructors in the 
Academy, and members of the Board of Educa- 
tion and other School Officers ; neither the names 
of the candidates, nor the schools from which 
they come, shall be made known to the instruc- 
tors conducting the examinations, but each can- 
didate shall be designated during examination by 
a number given to him on a card by the Prin- 
cipal. 

§ 73. The instructors conducting the exami- 
nation shall make full returns of the same on a 



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scale of ten, to the Faculty, who, from such re- 
turns, shall certify the names of the candidates 
who have passed the requisite good examination, 
and also the result of the examination of each 
candidate, which shall in all cases be recorded in 
a book to be kept for that purpose. The ex- 
amination papers of each student shall be pre- 
served and filed. 

§ 74. The studies pursued in the Academy 
shall be classified in the following courses, which 
shall be at the option of the students, viz. : 

A full course with modern languages. 

A full course with ancient languages. 

A partial course — embracing any studies less 
than either of the full courses. 

The full course of modern languages shall 
comprise French, German and Spanish ; the 
order in which they shall be pursued to be at 
the option of the student on commencing the 
course. 

The full course of ancient languages shall com- 
prise Latin, Greek, and any modern language at 
the option of the student. 

The partial course of languages shall comprise 
any language or languages at the option of the 
student, either as pursued in the full course, or 
in a special course of one year, intended for such 
students as may have immediate occasion for the 
use of any of the above named languages. 

§ 75. The studies of the classes shall be pur- 
sued under the following arrangement as to the 



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studies and text books, subject, however, to suck 
modifications, as in the opinion of the Faculty 
and the Executive Committee may be required. 
Whenever the Faculty shall deem any change of 
the studies or textbooks necessary, they shall 
recommend the same in writing to the Executive 
Committee. 



INTRODUCTORY CLASS. 

First Year— First Term. 

IjessonS 
per week^ 

Latin . Andrews and Stoddard''s Grammar, Andrews^ Reader, ) , 

or > 6 

French* Vannier cf- Robertson, j 

English Language Principles of General Grammar, 1 

Elements of Moral Philosophy. . . . Wayland^s Abridgment, 1 

Constitution of the United States Hart, 1 

Algebra w Docharty, 5 

Introduction to Natural Science. ...... Chambers, 2 

First Year— Second Term. 



Latin .as before, and Caesar, ~ 

or 

French. .Robertson, Roemer^s Polyglot Reader cf Roemer''s 

Elem. Reader,, 



5 



* In the full course with modern languages, the order in which 
they are studied may vary, but the time allotted for each succeed- 
ing language remains the same. See § 15. 



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Lessons 
■per week. 

Geometry Docharty, 5 

Elements of Chemistry Renwick, 2 

Introduction to Natural Science Chambers, 2 

Linear Drawing , . , . . 5 

Oratory and Composition. 



FEESHMAN CLASS, 

Second Year— Eirst Term. 

{ Latin as before, and Virgil, > 3 

} Greek Sophocles* Grammar, and Lessons, ) 2 

or 

V French . .Robertson, Polyglot Reader, Roemer^s 2d Reader, ) 3 

( German Glaubensklee's Grammar, and Reader, J 2 

English Etymology and Philology. . . Reid^s Diet., Fowler* s > ^ 

Grammar, J 

Rhetoric Bay, 2 

Universal History Weber, 2 

Moral Philosophy Alexander, 1 

Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and Navigation . Davies, 5 

Drawing and Descriptive Geometry 5 

Oratory and Composition. 



Second Tear— Second Term. 

Latin, .as before, and Anthonys Composition and Versiji 

cation. 



;i 



2 

Greek as before, and Owen's Reader, ) 3 

or 

< French as before, ) 2 

} German as before, and Flaxman, ) 3 

Rhetoric Day, 2 

History Weber, 2 

Roman Antiquities and Mythology Anthon, 1 

Analytical Geometry, Mensuration, Surveying Davies, 5 

Natural Science (Lecture) 1 

Drawing, Perspective, Shades and Shadows 4 

Oratory and Composition. 



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SOPHOMORE CLASS. 

Third Year— First Term. 



Lessons 
per week. 



j Latin , as before, and Cicero, ) 

\ Greek as before, and Xenophon's Anabasis, \ 



or 

( French as before, and Noel cf- Chapsal, instead of) 

■s Robertson, > 

( German as before, and Benedix and Oltrogge, j 3 

English Synonyms Graham, 2 

History and Sources of the English Language Fowler, 1 

History Weber, 5 

Political Economy (Lecture) 1 

Differential Calculus Davies, 2 

Free-hand Drawing, Course of Ornament and Blackboard. 4 



Third Year— Second Term. 

C Latin as before, and Livy and Sallust ) „ 

< Greek as before, and Owen's Homer^s Iliad and > 

( Thucydides, ) 2 
or 

( French .as before, and Moliere and Racine ) 2 

\ German as before, J 2 

English Literature Shaiv^s Outlines, 3 

Logic Whately, 2 

Intellectual Philosophy Mahan, 4 

Integral Calculus Davies, 3 

Natural Science (Lecture) 1 

Drawing, Architecture, and Study of the Antique and Figure 4 
Oratory and Composition. 



JUNIOR CLASS. 

Fourth Year— First Term. 

j Latin as before, and Horace, \ 2 

( Greek as before, ] 2 

or 

German as before, and Schiller, 4 

English Language Fowler^ 1 

4 



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Lessons 
•per week. 

Critical Eeadings, English 1 

Moral Philosophy , Hickok, 3 

Greek and Roman Antiquities Anthon, 1 

Analytical Mechanic Bartlett, 6 

Four Lectures on the Fine Arts, their History and Appli- 
cation to Manufactures and to Decoration. 
Themes, Forensic Discussions, Original Declamations. 

Fourth Year— Second Term. 

{ Latin as before, > 1 

( Greek , - as before, ) 1 

or 

Spanish - Ollendorf, Morales'* Reader, 2 

English Literature Cleveland's Compendium, 2 

Natural and Revealed Religion Butler, Mahan's Logic, i 

Physics Bird's Elements, 2 

Acoustics and Optics Bartlett, 3 

Spherical Astronomy Bartlett, 2 

Themes, Forensic Discussions, Original Declamations, 



SENIOR CLASS, 
Fifth Year—First Term. 

< ' ,. n^. ^ ^ Latin or Greek 1) t 

Ancient Course, ^ ^ ^j^^^^^ Language at option 4 ^ ^ 

or 

Spanish as before, Iriarte, Quintana, 5 

Physics and Applications Bird's Elements, 4 

Civil Engineering Mahan, 4 

Law and Politics Kent, 2 

Themes, Forensic Discussions, Original Declamations. 



Fifth Year-Second Term. 

( Latin or Greek , 1 ) 

Ancient Course, < The same Modern Language as > 6 

( before 4 j 

or 
Spanish Moratin, Don Quixote, Ascargorta, 5 



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LessoTis. 

per week. 

Chemistry, Foivnes, 4 

Civil Engineering as before, 4 

Law and Politics as before, 2 

Themes, Forensics, Original Declamations. 

§ 76. The option of each student as to the 
course of studies shall be made in writing, and 
registered and filed at the Academy. It shall 
be made by the parent or guardian, or shall be 
by the parent or guardian submitted, in writing, 
to the discretion of the Faculty. Students 
pursuing a particular course will not be supplied 
with rooms for study at the Academy, but will 
be expected to come there for recitations and 
lectures. 

§ 77. At the beginning of each term the stu- 
dents in each full course of the Introductory class 
shall be divided into sections of about twenty- 
five — of the Freshman class of about thirty — 
and of the other classes of about forty students, 
for the purpose of recitation. Each student 
shall have three recitations or lectures each day, 
besides drawing, and also an exercise in Decla- 
mation and Composition about once a month. 
The recitations and lectures shall be so arranged 
in alternation with the hours of study, that the 
Professors, while not occupied with giving in- 
struction, may visit the recitation rooms of the 
tutors in their respective apartments, (which it 
shall be their duty to do,) to observe the manner 
in which instruction is given, and to become 
acquainted with the students, their progress and 
attainments. The professor of Moral, Intellec- 
tual, and Political Philosophy, shall give at least 



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one lecture, or hear one recitation, each day ; the 
Professor of Chemistry, two ; and all the other 
members of the Faculty, whose whole time is 
devoted to the Institution, and the Tutors, four. 
The Professor of History and Belles-Lettres 
shall be employed in the Department of English 
Language, when not engaged in teaching in his 
own Department. The Professor of Drawing 
shall teach Descriptive Geometry in the Depart- 
ment of Pure Mathematics, when not engaged 
with his classes in Drawing. The studies of 
cognate departments shall be so distributed 
among the Professors and tutors therein, as to 
give each full employment. If any instructor 
shall be absent from his post, the Principal 
shall direct another to take his place for the 
time being. 

§ 78. Rooms, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 15, 
16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, shall be 
appropriated to the instructors as recitation- 
rooms ; and rooms Nos. 12, 17, 19, 24, 27, 29, 
be occupied as study rooms by the students at 
their desks, under the superintendence of an 
instructor. 

§ 79. The duty of superintending the students 
in the study rooms shall be performed by all the 
Instructors, except the Principal and those who 
are on duty only for a part of the day. They 
shall perform the same in regular rotation ; and 
it shall be the duty of such of them as are mem- 
bers of the Faculty, when not engaged in in- 



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struction, occasion all j to pass through the study 
rooms and halls each day, and to report to the 
Principal any irregularities or violations of good 
order which may come under their notice. 

Discipline. 

§ 80. Every student shall conduct himself 
according to the rules of good manners, good 
morals, and manly propriety ; shall give punc- 
tual and constant attendance to all his duties ; 
shall use the property of the Institution with 
care and economy, and restore the same when 
required. 

§ 81. The punishments inflicted in the Acad- 
emy shall be the demerit marks, private admo- 
nition, admonition by the principal in the 
presence of the Section and of the Instructor in 
the recitation-room, suspension by the direction 
of the Principal, public admonition by the 
Principal, in presence of all the students at roll- 
call, final admonition by the Principal in a meet- 
ing of the Faculty, and dismission for miscon- 
duct, to be directed by a vote of the Faculty ; 
and whenever either of the same is inflicted, it 
shall be recorded in the " Book of Discipline," 
with the number of demerit marks, to be carried 
into the ledger for the same. 

^82. The several professors and tutors shall 
enforce in the various sections, while under their 
personal inspection, such rules of discipline as 
may be established, and shall be responsible for 

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the maintenance of order therein, and shall keep 
full daily records of the merit and demerit of 
each student under his care, and shall report the 
same in writing to the Principal, who shall cause 
an abstract of these reports to be entered in the 
books of the Academy, and the reports to be 
filed and preserved. 

§ 83. Each Instructor shall keep a class 
report, embracing a period of two weeks, in 
which shall be entered the merit and demerit 
marks of each student while under his care, and 
the same shall be carried into the ledger every 
two weeks. 

§ 84. Each Instructor shall be provided with 
a Register of Conduct, in which it shall be his 
duty to enter all cases of violation of good order 
by any student in his presence, which he thinks 
deserving of censure, with the amount of such 
censure in Demerit marks. Each Instructor shall 
leave his Register with the Principal at the close 
of the Academic exercises of each day, and re- 
ceive the same from him again each morning ; 
and it shall be the duty of the Principal to 
examine such entries, and enter his approval 
of such marks, or, on consultation with the 
Instructor, make such change in said demerit 
marks as in his opinion shall be just, and then 
the same shall be added, to the demerit marks in 
the bi-weekly class reports, and carried into the 
ledger. No student shall be demerited without 
notice to him of the fact and the cause. 



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§ 85. No student shall be suspended, except 
for misconduct ; and all students suspended 
shall be required to attend all the recitations 
and lectures of their sections ; but during their 
suspension they shall sit for study in the office, 
and on entering and leaving the recitation room 
shall take the rear of the section. 

§ 86. In all cases in which a student shall be 
guilty of any offence, which, in the opinion of the 
Instructor, requires that such student should be 
sent to the Principal for discipline, the Instructor 
shall, under his hand, give the student a memo- 
randum of the offence, to be delivered to the 
Principal, and the Principal shall record the 
same in the Book of Discipline, and shall him- 
self determine the punishment, and cause the 
same to be recorded in the Book of Discipline. 

Merit, 

§ 87. The maximum of Merit in any study 
cr exercise, shall be ascertained by multiplying 
the whole number of exercises of the class or 
section by ten, the scale on which merit is esti- 
mated. All punishments for misconduct, shall 
be represented by demerit marks on the ledger. 

§ 88. The maximum of conduct shall be as- 
certained by multiplying the whole number of 
Academic Days by ten, and the rate of conduct 
shall be ascertained by deducting from such 
maximum all demerit marks. 



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§ 89. There shall be made up immediately 
after each examination, a Merit Roll of each 
class, and each student shall be ranked on the 
roll as he may approach most nearly to the max- 
imum in his departments on the ledger including 
the examinations, and including conduct. 

§ 90. The Merit Roll shall consist of four 
classes : — Highest, High, Good, and Low ; con- 
taining the highest, and those to ^, ^, f , below 
the maximum respectively. 

§ 91. The Merit Roll shall be signed by the 
Principal, and after being printed by the Execu- 
tive Committee, shall be sent by him to the pa- 
rents or guardians of every student ; and it shall 
be the duty of the Principal, where any student 
shall be habitually or grossly delinquent, to give 
notice thereof, in writing, to the parent or guar- 
dian, not only with the copy of the Merit Roll, 
but at the time of such delinquency. 

§ 92. No student shall be put back into an- 
other class, except at the request of his parent 
or guardian ; but if any student shall in any of 
his studies have made so little progress, or in his 
conduct shall have been so disorderly as not to 
have an average rate of at least half the maxi- 
mum on the last Merit Roll, he shall be rated as 
deficient, and so recorded ; and if he shall be rated 
as deficient on two successive Merit Rolls, he 
shall be dismissed from the Academy. 



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§ 93. Every student admitted into tlie Acade- 
my shall receive a certificate thereof, in the form 
to be prepared by the i Executive Committee, 
stating that on leaving the Academy with a good 
character after one year, he shall receive another 
certificate or diploma, stating the period he has 
been in the Academy, and the studies there pur- 
sued by him ; and provided he shall have satis- 
factorily accounted for all the books and other 
property committed to him, and shall have main- 
tained a good character, he shall, on so leaving 
the Academy, receive such diploma ; but no stu- 
dent shall receive a certificate of dismission if he 
be dismissed for misconduct ; and in each certifi- 
cate, it shall be stated that he is furnished with 
a statement of his standing in the Academy, as 
it shall appear on the records during his whole 
connection with the Academy. 

§ 94. When vacancies occur in the corps of 
tutors, preference shall always be given to the 
highest two on the Merit Eoll of the graduates 
of the Academy, provided they have sufficient 
qualifications for such appointment. 

Text-Books, or Boohs of Reference. 

§ 95. No books shall be delivered to the stu- 
dents or Instructors except by the Registrar on 
the written order of the principal, and the Re- 
gistrar shall keep full accounts of the same. 

§ 96. Whenever any student shall have finish- 
ed the use of any text -book or book of reference. 



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or shall have completed the studies to which it 
relates, he shall return the same to the Registrar, 
or satisfactorily account for the same ; and at 
the end of each term all books and slates shall 
be returned to the Registrar, or accounted for by 
the officers and students respectively, and he shall 
report all violations of this rule to the Executive 
Committee. 

Examinations, 

§ 97. There shall be two several examinations 
in each year of all the students in all the studies 
pursued by them since the last examination. The 
first shall commence on the first Monday of Feb- 
ruary, and shall continue eight days, from 9 a. M., 
to 12 M., and from 1 to 4 p. m., each day. The 
second shall commence on the fourth Monday 
before Commencement, and shall continue eight 
days, from 8|- a. m., to 12 m., and from 2 to 6\ 
p. M. each day. The Introductory Class to be then 
examined for advancement to the Freshman 
Class ; but no one shall be admitted to the Fresh- 
man Class who will not be fourteen years of age 
at the commencement of the then next term, and 
is not in other respects qualified according to the 
By-Laws. The examinations shall be public ; 
and the Executive Committee shall, by adver- 
tisement and invitation, give notice of the same, 
and the Principal of the Academy shall furnish 
to the Executive Committee, at least ten days 
before such examination, a statement of the or- 
der of examination. 



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All the members of each class shall be exam- 
ined at the same time in the same study, by oral 
and written questions. It shall be the duty of all 
the Instructors to attend the examinations from 
day to day. 

Terms and Vacations. 

§ 98. The hours of study and instruction in 
the Academy are from 9 a. m., to 12 m. , and 
from 121 to 3 p. m. The doors will be closed 
for roll call at precisely 15 minutes before 9, 
when the Instructors must be present. There 
shall be three vacations in each academic year — ■ 
the summer vacation from Commencement, six 
weeks ; the winter vacation, from the 25 th day 
of December to the 1st day of January, inclu- 
sive ; the spring vacation, from the last day of 
April, inclusive, one week. There shall be no 
academic exercises on Saturday, on the day 
celebrated as the Anniversary of American 
Independence, and on Thanksgiving Day ; and 
there shall be a recess from 12 to 121 o'clock 
each day. The first academic term shall com- 
mence at the end of the Summer vacation, 
and the second at the end of the first examina- 
tion. 

Commencement, 

§ 99. The academic year shall end on the 
Tuesday before the third Wednesday of July in 
each year, on which day the Commencement of 
the Institution shall be held, at a place to be 



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provided by the Executive Committee. The 
Board of Education shall meet statedly, at the 
time and place of the annual Commencement. 
The President of the Board of Education shall 
preside. 

Degrees. 

§ 100. Two Degrees shall be conferred on the 
students graduating from the Free Academy — 
that of Bachelor of Arts on those who have 
pursued a full course with Ancient Languages, 
and that of Bachelor of Sciences on those who 
have pursued a full course with Modern 
Languages. 

Library, 

§ 101. The Principal shall at all times have 
access to the Library, and shall, on application 
to the Librarian or Assistant-Librarian, be enti- 
tled to the free use thereof. 

§ 102. The Professors and Tutors shall, at all 
times, on application to the Librarian or Assis- 
tant Librarian, have access to the Library, and 
enjoy the right of taking books therefrom, 
provided no Professor have more than six, and 
no Tutor have more than three volumes belong- 
ing to the Library, at any one time in his pos- 
session. 

§ 103. The Students of the Senior, Junior, 
Sophomore, and Freshman classes, shall be enti- 



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tied to the use of the Library, under the condi- 
tions hereinafter mentioned. 

§ 104. The Library shall be opened to students 
every alternate Friday throughout the Academic 
Terms, from 8^ to 9 A. m., for the return of 
books, and from 3 to 3^, p. m., for the delivery 
of books and it shall be the duty of the Libra- 
rian or Assistant Librarian to be in the Library 
at those times. 

§ 105. Students shall make application for 
books in the foUowins; manner : 

a. The Assistant-Librarian will furnish blank 
Certificates, in form as follows : 

[_Space for date.'] 

\_Space for name, Class, ^c. Section ], hav- 
ing, during the past two weeks, obtained the 
Library Average (75) for Scholarship in my 
Department, aed having received no mark of de- 
merit for misconduct, and having been punctual 
in attendance, is declared to be entitled to the 
use of, the Library, provided no objections exist 
on other grounds. 

[Space for signature. Space for signature. Space for signature.] 

h. The above certificate, dated the previous 
afternoon, and signed by at least three of the 
Professors or Tutors, whose recitations the Stu- 
dent may have attended during the preceding two 
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weeks, must be handed to the Librarian or Assist- 
ant-Librarian at the stated time on Friday morn- 
ing, together with any book belonging to the Li- 
brary, which the applicant may have drawn 
therefrom. 

c. On the back of this certificate, thus dated 
and signed, the applicant will inscribe, in the 
order of his preference, the titles of any books 
which he may desire. He shall be entitled to 
the first in order not in use, unless its removal 
from the Library be forbidden, but in no case 
shall any student have more than one volume be- 
longing to the Library at one time in his pos- 
session. 

d. The books thus applied for having been se- 
lected, and recorded by the Assistant-Librarian 
during the day, will be delivered to the appli- 
cants the same afternoon at three o'clock. 

§ 106. No book shall be taken from the Li- 
brary, UNDER ANY PRETENCE, BY ANY PERSON, 

without the authority of the Librarian or Assis- 
tant Librarian, and every book taken shall be 
duly recorded in a Register provided for that 
purpose. 

§ 107. No book shall be retained by any Li- 
structor or student for a longer period than two 
weeks, without renewal, except books of refer- 
ence used by an instructor in his recitation room. 
All books shall be returned one week before the 
end of the Term. 



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§ 108. Should any student wish the renewal 
of a book already in his possession, he must ful- 
fill every requirement of the 46th section, exactly 
as if he desired another book, and should any 
application have been made for it in the mean- 
time, his right thereto shall cease. 

§ 109. The penalties for defacing, mutilating, 
or losing books belonging to the Library, shall, in 
the case of students, be as follows : 

a. For defacing a book, suspension from the 
use of the Library for not less than one month 
or more than three months, at the discretion of 
the Librarian, or till the injury be repaired, to 
be entered in the Library account. 

h. For mutilating or losing a book, complete 
restriction from the use of the Library until the 
book be replaced, rebound, or repaired, as the 
Librarian may require. 

§ 110. Any book delivered to any student or 
Instructor, whether text-book, book of reference, 
or library book, shall constitute a charge against 
him of the cost of the book, to be paid by him 
unless it be returned in good condition, or its loss 
or injury be satisfactorily accounted for to the 
Librarian ; and in case of a student, unless the 
same be paid for or replaced without delay, he 
shall be dismissed from the Academy. In cases 
of gross carelessness, or wanton injury of the 
books, punishment shall be inflicted in addition 
to reparation. 



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§ 111. The Librarian shall report to the Ex- 
ecutive Committee at the end of each Term, the 
condition of the Library, the books injured or 
lost, and the persons by whom they were lost or 
inj ured. 

Societies. 

g 112. No literary societies shall exist in the 
Academy exce])t by the permission of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee, and their approval of the 
constitution thereof ; and of all such societies 
all the members of the faculty shall be ex-officio 
members. No student shall be a member of 
more than one society. Students whose stand- 
ing on the merit roll shall be good, shall be ad- 
missible by a majority vote by ballot of all the 
members present, a quorum being present. 

§ 113. There shall be but two such societies, 
and the Executive Committee may dissolve any 
society in the Academy. 

§ 114. The meetings of the societies shall be 
held at such time and place as they may desig- 
nate, subject to the approval of the Executive 
Committee ; and one of the small rooms in the 
northeastern and southeastern corners of the 
Hall shall be appropriated to each society for its 
archives. 

§ 115. On the evening of the last Friday of 
the examination in February, shall be held in the 
large Hall the exhibition of the Junior Class, at 



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which time there shall be public speaking of ori- 
ginal compositions, by members of that class ; 
they shall be appointed by a resolution of the 
Faculty, in November in each year, from among 
those whose standing in the last preceding Merit 
Roll be not lower than " good." 

Catalogue. 

§ 116. In the month of September, annually, 
the Executive Committee shall cause to be pre- 
pared and published, a catalogue of the officers 
and students of the Academy, which shall con- 
tain the Board of Education, the Executive 
Committee, the instructors and students, the 
course of studies as distributed through the year, 
and the text-books. 

Article 17. — Normal Schools. 

.§ 117. There shall be a Normal School for the 
instruction of the Female Teachers employed in 
the several schools under the direction of this 
Board, which Normal School shall hold its ses- 
sions on every Saturday in the year, from 9 
o'clock A. M., till 2 o'clock p. ivi., with the ex- 
ception of the Saturdays in the month of August, 
and those falling on the holidays prescribed by 
this Board. 

§ 118. There shall also be a Normal School for 
the instruction of Male Teachers in the several 
before-mentioned Schools, which shall hold its 
sessions as follows, viz. : From the 1st of No- 

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vember to the 1st of May in each year, on 
Wednesdays from 4 to 7 o'clock p. m. ; and on 
Saturdays from 4 to 8 o'clock p. m. ; and from 
the 1st of May to the 1st of November in each 
year, on "Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 7 
o'clock p. M. 

§ 119. The Male and Female Normal Schools 
shall hold their sessions in the Hall of the Board 
of Education. 

§ 120. They shall be under the care and in- 
struction of a Principal and such other teachers 
as may be necessary, who shall be appointed by 
the Board of Education, and subject to the 
rules and regulations of the said Board. The 
Schools shall be under the supervision of the 
Executive Committee on Normal Schools. 

§ 121. All teachers below the grade of Prin- 
cipal, except such as shall possess a full certifi- 
cate of qualification as teacher of Common 
Schools, shall be required to attend punctually 
and regularly the sessions of the Normal Schools, 
unless excused by the Normal School Committee 
and the School Officers of the Ward in v/hich 
they may be employed. 

§ 122. If any teacher not excused as aforesaid, 
shall neglect to attend regularly and punctually 
the sessions of the Normal Schools for teachers, 
and faithfully pursue the studies appointed for 
them, it shall be the duty of the Normal School 



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Committee to report such delinquent to the 
Board of Education, which shall proceed to de- 
clare the situation of such teacher forfeited ; and 
after register upon the minutes of that body of 
such forfeiture, no payment of salary shall be 
made to such delinquent except for services per- 
formed prior to such declaration. 

§ 123. The Executive Committee on Normal 
Schools shall keep written minutes of their pro- 
ceedings, which shall be read at the stated meet- 
ings of the Board of Education, immediately 
after the reading of the minutes of the Execu- 
tive Committee on the Free Academy. 

§ 124. The Normal Schools shall each consist 
of five classes, to be designated by the first five 
letters of the alphabet, the highest class to be de- 
nominated A, and the lowest E. The Execu- 
tive Committee shall be empowered to subdivide 
any class whenever the number of pupils in such 
class shall exceed forty. 

§ 125. It shall be the duty of the Principal 
of each School to attend to the general order of 
the Institution, to open each session by the 
proper exercise, to receive visitors and introduce 
them, if necessary, to the several class-rooms ; 
to examine and admit pupils, assigning them to 
the class for which they may be qualified ; by 
the authority of the Committee, to make all pro- 
motions at the times hereinafter provided ; to 
keep the records of the Institution, and to attend 



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to the reception and distribution all books and 
other supplies. 

§ 126. The Teachers shall be responsible for 
the due improvement of the several classes in 
their respective branches of instruction, and it 
shall be their duty to attend such meetings as 
shall be called by the Principal for the purpose 
of consultation respecting the management of the 
Institution. It shall be the duty of the Teachers 
to keep records of the several classes under their 
instruction. 

§ 127. There shall be semi-annual examina- 
tions of the Normal Schools, under the direction 
of the Executive Committee, to commence on or 
about the 15th day of May and the 15th day of 
Novemberj in each year, at which examination 
the Committee, or their delegates, shall mark 
the performances of each pupil upon lists to be 
furnished by the Principal and Teachers, after 
which promotions shall be made at the discre- 
tion of the Committee, upon consultation with 
the Teachers. 

The Teachers shall attend at such times, and 
conduct the examination in such manner as 
shall be required by the Committee ; the City 
Superintendent shall be present and take part in 
the examination. The School Officers of the 
various wards shall also be invited to be pres- 
ent. 

8 128. At the termination of the examina- 



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tions, such members of the highest class as shall 
have acquitted themselves to the satisfactiun of 
the Committee, shall, by the Committee, be pre- 
sented with a diploma, signed by the Principal 
of the School and the members of the Com- 
mittee, and having the seal of the Board of 
Education, attested by the President and Clerk, 
attached thereto. 

§ 129. At the close of every quarter, reports 
of the several classes shall be made to the Ex- 
ecutive Committee specifying the number of 
times each pupil may have been present, absent, 
or late, or may have left before the hour of dis- 
mission, as well as his or her grade in each 
study, during the quarter. The grade shall be 
indicated by the Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 ; 1 indi- 
cating the highest degree of proficiency, and 5 
the lowest. These reports, after being revised 
by the Committee, shall be transmitted to the 
Board of Education and to the School Officers 
of the several wards. The pupils in each class 
shall be graded according to the marks received, 
on a scale of 5. All absentees excused by the 
Committee, shall receive marks equal to their 
average marks of the quarter for the exercises 
not attended. 

I 130. The extent to which the various 
branches of instruction shall be carried in 
each class, shall be defined by the Committee, 
and no teacher shall deviate from such course 
of study unless authorized by a vote of the Com- 



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mittee. No new study or new books shall be 
introduced into any of the Normal Schools, ex- 
cept by authority of the Executive Committee 
having the charge of the same. 

§ 131. All cases of disorderly conduct, or in- 
attention to duty, upon the part of the pupils iu 
the Normal Schools, shall, at the discretion of 
the Principal, be reported to the Executive Com- 
mittee, who shall, at their discretion, communi- 
cate the facts of the case in writing to the 
School Officers of the Ward in which the per- 
sons so reported may be employed. All insub- 
ordination and gross delinquencies shall be pun- 
ished by the suspension of the offender — such 
suspension, with the duration thereof, to be de- 
clared by a majority of the Committee, who shall 
forthwith communicate the facts of the case to the 
Board of School Officers employing the person so 
suspended. 

Article 18. 

Of the Grammar and Primary Schools, 

§ 132. Grades of Schools. 

The Ward Schools shall consist of Primary 
and Grammar Schools and Primary Depart- 
ments : the present Upper Department shall be 
designated as Grammar Schools for boys, and 
Grammar Schools for girls, respectively. Each 
School shall be divided into five classes, with as 



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many Rub-divisions as may be necessary— the 
highest or the most advanced class to be desig- 
nated as No. 1, and the lowest as No. 5. The 
sub-divisions of classes shall be called Sections 
A, B, C, &c. 

GrRADES OF STUDIES. 

The course of instruction in the several 
Schools shall be as follows : 

Primary Schools. 

Class 5. — The alphabet and its combinations 
into words and syllables ; lessons on objects and 
common things. 

Class 4. — Spelling, reading, punctuation, de- 
finitions, Eoman numbers, and tables in addi- 
tion. 

Class 3. — The simple rules of arithmetic, 
including the multiplication table ; spelling, 
reading, and definition, continued ; and slate 
writing. 

Class 2. — Spelling, reading, and definition, 
continued ; arithmetic, through simple subtrac- 
tion ; geography commenced ; writing and draw- 
ing on slates and the black board. 

Class 1. — Spelling, reading, and definition, 
continued; tables of weights, measures, time, 



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&c. ; arithmetic reviewed, and completed through 
simple division ; elementary geography ; drawing 
and writing on slates ; elementary instruction in 
the names and qualities of objects and common 
things, with the elementary principles of natural 
science : mental arithmetic. 

Vocal music to be taught and practiced. 

In Primary Schools, in buildings containing 
no Grammar Schools, if the average attendance 
is more than five hundred, the course of instruc- 
tion may be continued, so as to embrace the 
studies prescribed for classes four and five of the 
Grammar Schools. 

Grammar Schools. 

Class 5. — Review of tlie several studies pursued 
in tbe Primary Schools : geography ; arithmetic, 
so far as compound multiplication, including a 
knowledge of Federal and Sterling money ; spell- 
ing, reading, and definition; mental arithmetic 
and lessons on natural objects. 

Class 4. — Spelling, reading, and definition, 
continued ; arithmetic through compound rules 
of reduction ; geography continued with elemen- 
tary principles of astronomy; grammar com- 
menced. 

Class 3. — Spelling, reading, and definition, 
continued; arithmetic continued, through com- 
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English grammar, with parsing ; geography con- 
tinued ; natural history and philosophy com- 
menced ; history of the United States ; astronomy 
continued. 

Class 2. — Arithmetic through per-centage, in- 
terest ; geogTaphy continued ; history of the 
United States ; parsing ; descriptive astronomy ; 
natural history and philosophy, including the 
elementary principles of mineralogy, geology, and 
chemistry ; physiology and algebra commenced. 

Class 1. — Arithmetic completed and thorough- 
ly reviewed ; geography completed and thoroughly 
reviewed ; algebra, geometry, natural history, 
parsing, philosophy, astronomy and physiology ; 
general history and book-keeping ; United States 
history ; Constitution of the United States. 

All the classes in the Grammar Schools to be 
instructed in penmanship, composition, declama- 
tion, and drawing. Vocal music to be taught 
and practiced. 

Gkax>es of Teachees. 

1. The teachers employed in the Schools shall 
be ranked as Principals, Vice-Principals, and 1st, 
2d, and 3d Assistants, &c. There shall be 
three grades, known and designated as A, B, and 
C, and the certificates of qualification or licenses, 
to be given by the City Superintendent, shall 
always express the grade of the teacher, and the 
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position for whicli he is qualified, and shall be in 
the following form : 

/, A. B., City Superintendent of Schools in 
the City of New- York, do hereby certify that 
(7. D. has been duly examined, and found quali- 
fied in respect to learning, ability, and moral 
character, to teach a Common School in said city 

as ; and is hereby licensed as a 

teacher of grade . 



2. Without a certificate in such form, signed 
by the City Superintendent, no person shall be 
entitled to receive salary as a teacher of a Com- 
mon School in said city. 

3. No teacher, except those of Grades A and 
B, for Grammar Schools, shall hereafter be 
appointed in any such schools ; and no teacher, 
except of Grade A, shall be appointed Principal 
or Vice-Principal therein. No teacher hereafter 
appointed to any position, nor any teacher now 
holding a Grade B certificate, for Grammar 
Schools, shall be required to attend the Normal 
School. 

4. All teachers now employed in the "Ward 
Schools, who have a full certificate or license 
to teach, whether from the State Superintendent, 
the City Superintendent, or the Inspectors of 
Common Schools, and all present or future 
graduates of the State Normal School, of the 



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Normal Schools of the Board of Education, and 
of the Free Academy, shall be entitled to receive 
certificates of Grade A, but no other persons 
shall receive certificates of Grade A, except, on 
examination, they shall be found qualified for 
that grade ; and no pupil of any of the Normal 
Schools shall receive a certificate of Grade A, 
unless the Executive Committee on Normal 
Schools shall concur in granting the same ; and 
no teacher shall be hereafter appointed or pro- 
moted, or receive an increase of salary in any 
Ward School without possessing a license in the 
form aforesaid, expressing the grade for which 
such license is given. On or before the twenty- 
fifth day of December in each year, the City 
Superintendent shall report to the Board a com- 
plete list of all the teachers in the Schools, with 
their grades and salaries. 

Article 1 9 . — Libraries. 

§ 133. School Libraries shall be established in 
all the Grammar Schools, for boys and girls, un- 
der the jurisdiction of the Board of Education, 
including such Primary Schools, as have an ad- 
vanced department. They shall be under the im- 
mediate direction and control of the School Offi- 
cers of the several Wards, and subject to such 
general rules and regulations as the Board of 
Education may from time to time adopt. 

§ 134. As soon as a catalogue can be adopted 
by the Board of Education, and the necessary 
arrangementsventered into for procuring the books, 



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every Grammar School, and every Primary School 
organized with an advanced department, so far as 
that department is concerned, whose average an- 
nual attendance amounts, on the 31st of Decem- 
ber, 1854, to 150 pupils and under, shall be en- 
titled to a library of a maximum number of 500 
volumes ; and those schools whose averaore attend- 
ance amounts to 250 and under, and over 150, 
shall be entitled to a library of a maximum num- 
ber of 1,000 volumes ; and those schools whose 
average attendance amounts to 250 and over, to 
a library of a maximum number of 1,500 vol- 
umes. The funds for the establishment of which 
shall be wholly derived from the proportion due to 
this city of the annual State appropriation for school 
library purposes, and any donation for the purpose. 

Aeticle 20. 

For the Government of the Evening Schools. 

§ 135. Evening Schools shall be established in 
such of the Ward School-Houses or other build- 
ings now used for public school purposes, and in 
such other places as the Board of Education 
shaU, from time to time, deem expedient, and 
the following rules and regulations are hereby 
established for the government of the same : 

§ 136. Tliere shall be two terms of the Eve- 
ning Schools ; the first shall commence on the 
second day of January, or as soon thereafter as 
may be, and continue nine weeks ; the second 
shall commence on the first Monday in October, 
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Duties and Powers of the Executive Commiiiee on 
Evening Schools. 

§ 137. The Executive Committee on Evening 
Schools of the Board of Education shall have 
power, and they are hereby authorized, to fit up 
the school-rooms, provide the necessary means 
for lighting the same, and procure and furnish 
the necessary books and stationery for the use 
of the teachers and scholars, subject to the by- 
laws, rules and regulations of the Board in rela- 
tion to repairs, supplies, and books. 

§jl38. The Committee shall prescribe a uniform 
course of studies to be pursued, and uniform 
books to be used in all the Evening Schools. 
They shall contract with and employ all teach- 
ers in said schools. They shall audit all bills for 
teachers' salaries and other expenses, and the 
said bills when certified to be connect by a ma- 
jority of the Committee shall be paid by the 
President and Clerk of the Board of Education, 
by checks countersigned by the Chairman of the 
Finance Committee of said Board. 

§ 139. The said Committee shall report at the 
end of the term, or oftener, if required, to the 
Board of Education, the amount of money paid 
on account of each school, and the purposes for 
which the same has been expended ; the number 
of teachers that have been employed, and the 
number of pupils in each school. 
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§ 140. The visitation of the said schools shall 
be divided among- the several members of the 

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Committee, each school being assigned to a mem- 
ber residing in the Ward in which such school is 
located, and when no member of the Committee 
resides within the Ward in which any school shall 
be located, such schools shall be specially visited 
by one of the Commissioners of that Ward, to be 
appointed by the President of the Board of 
Education. 

§ 141. Whenever the'Committee shall deem it 
advisable to discontinue any of the said schools, 
they shall report the same forthwith to the Board 
of Education, with their reasons for the same. 

Teachers. 

§ 142. In each school shall be employed one 
principal teacher, who shall be held responsible 
to the Board of Education, through the Com- 
mittee on Evening Schools, and to the Ward 
Officers for the good government and manage- 
ment of the said school. The assistant teachers 
employed shall be held responsible to the Prin- 
cipal for the faithful performance of the duties 
committed to their charge. 

§ 143. The principal teacher shall keep all the 
books required under these rules, or by the 
Committee on Evening Schools, and in addition 
the following, to wit : a roll book, a weekly re- 
port book, and a visitors' book. 



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§ 144. The principal teacher of each school 
shall report monthly to the Committee on Even- 
ing Schools a statement of the number of schol- 
ars in attendance, the studies pursued, and all 
other information which may be required by the 
said Committee, or the rules established by the 
Board of Education. 

§ 145. No teacher shall be employed who does 
not at the time of his or her appointment hold a 
certificate of qualification from the City Superin- 
tendent in regard to moral character, learning 
and ability. 

Sessions, 

§ 146. The Schools for males shall be opened 
at 7 o'clock, and closed at 9|- o'clock every 
evening during the week, except Saturday and 
Sunday. 



§ 147. The door shall be opened at 6 o'clock 
and 40 minutes, at which time at least two 
teachers shall be required to be present to main- 
tain order, and to make all necessary prepara- 
tions for the commencement of school exercises. 

§ 148. Punctuality in attendance being indis- 
pensable, the outside gate or door shall be closed 
at fifteen minutes before eight o'clock, after 
which time no scholar shall be allowed to enter, 
nor shall any be allowed to leave the school for 
any cause except sickness, and then with per- 
mission of the Principal. 



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§ 149. The schools for females shall be opened 
and closed half an hour before the time for open- 
ing and clo.^ing the schools for males, and the 
doors for admission of the pupils to the school 
buildings, shall be opened a half hour before the 
time of opening the doors for males, and at the 
same time at least two teachers shall be present 
for the same purposes, as stated in § 145. 

§ 150. No assemblage of scholars in the vicin- 
ity of the school buildings, before the hour of 
opening the schools, will be allowed, and all are 
required to leave schools when closed, without 
noise, and immediately retire to their respective 
homes. 

Admission of Scholars, 

§ 151. No scholar shall be received in the 
schools w^hose daily avocations admit of an 
attendance npon the Ward Schools provided by 
law. 

§ 152. Application for admission to the Schools 
shall be made to the Principal at the school- 
rooms, by the pupils, accompanied by their pa- 
rents, guardians, or other person to whom they 
may be personally known. 

§ 153. The Principal shall enter in a Book, to 
be kept for that purpose, the name, residence, 
age, and occupation of the pupil, together with 
the name of the parent or guardian of said 
pupil. 



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§ 154. A seat shall be assigned to each pupil, 
and a register kept of the same, and the seat 
thus assigned, and no other, shall be exclusively 
occupied by said pupil, who shall be responsible 
for all damage accruing to said seat or desk while 
occupying the same. 

§ 155. The Principal shall furnish each pupil 
with the necessary books and stationery, and 
keep an account of the same, and said pupil shall 
be held accomitable for their proper use and re- 
turn. 

§ 156. No pupil attending one school shall be 
allowed to enter another without a written trans- 
fer from the Principal. 

Dismissal from School. 

§ 157. A wilful or wanton violation of any of 
the rules of the school, or a disobedience of the 
lawful commands of the teachers, shall subject 
the pupil to a suspension by the Principal, and 
with the advice of the Committee on Evening 
Schools, to expulsion from the school. 

§ 158. When a pupil is expelled, for any of 
the causes above enumerated, notice shall be 
given to the parent or guardian of such pupil, 
the Principals of the other Evening Schools in 
the city, the Chairman of the Board of School 
Officers of the Ward in which the school is lo- 
cated, and to the chakman of the Committee on 
Evenino; Schools. 



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§ 159. A scholar expelled, after evidence of 
reformation shall have been given to the Com- 
mittee, may be permitted by the said Committee 
to attend any of the Evening Schools. 

§ 160. The Principal of each school shall keep 
a record of all expulsions from his ow^n school, 
and of notices received by him of expulsions from 
other schools. 

§ 161. No corporal punishment shall be al- 
low^ed in any of the Evening Schools. 

Article 21. — Supplies. 

' § 162. The Clerk of the Board of Education 
shall prepare annually, under the direction of 
the Committee on Supplies, a list of all the arti- 
cles of books, stationery, and fuel, required by the 
schools under the jurisdiction of this Board, for 
the ensuing year, and cause the same to be 
printed. And the Committee on Supplies shall 
thereupon advertise for two weeks three times 
a week in four daily papers, for proposals to 
furnish any one or more of such articles, at such 
times, and in such quantities of each article as 
the same may be required for the several schools. 
Payments to be made by the drafts of the Board 
of Education on the City Treasury, on the first 
day of each month, not less than one week after 
the bills shall be delivered at the Clerk's office, 
and properly vouched by the Committee. The 
advertisement to state that blank proposals and 
list of articles can be obtained at the office of the 



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Clerk of this Board ; also tlie time to which pro- 
posals will be received, and that the Committee 
will thereupon proceed to open the same. The 
proposals to be accompanied by the names and 
signatures of the proposed securities, and to state 
the lowest price for each article proposed for, of 
the quality specified in the advertisement ; and 
no person shall be allowed to put in more than 
one bid. At the time appointed in such adver- 
tisement, the Committee shall proceed to com- 
pare the said proposals, and shall in all cases, 
award the contract for any article to any respon- 
sible party proposing the lowest price for the 
same, who will give security satisfactory to the 
Board of Education. The article shall cor- 
respond with samples in the office of the Clerk, 
and all the articles awarded to one party may 
be embraced in one contract. 

§ 163. All needful supplies of fuel for the seve- 
ral schools shall be furnished under the direction 
of the Committee on Supplies, upon the requisi- 
tion of the Trustees of the several wards, who 
shall make in writing such requisitions accord- 
ing to the actual annual wants of the Schools, 
and file the same with the Clerk of this Board 
on or before the first day of July, in each year. 

§ 164. There shall be an Inspector of Fuel 
elected by the Board, whose salary shall be eight 
hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, to 
hold his office for one year,' or until another is 
elected in his place. He shall be subject to the 
immediate supervision and direction of the Com- 



mittee on Supplies, which, committee shall have 
power to suspend him from office for any malfea- 
sance or improper conduct or neglect of duty, 
in his office as such Inspector, and to appoint 
another in his place during such suspension ; but 
the said Committee shall report thereon to the 
Board for its consideration the facts, with their 
conclusions therefrom, as soon after such suspen- 
sion as possible, 

§ 165. Before entering upon the duties of his 
offixe, such Inspector shall take and subscribe an 
oath faithfully to perform the duties of his office. 

§ 166. It shall be the duty of said Inspector 
to inspect all wood and coal, and to measure and 
weigh the same, and to supervise the delivery 
thereof to the schools, which shall or may be 
furnished under contracts made with the Board 
of Education, and to see that the same is in all 
respects in strict conformity to the requirements 
of such contracts ; to be at all times subject to 
the direction of the Committee on Supplies, who 
alone are authorized, and whose duty it shall be 
to procure all the necessary fuel for the schools 
by contract under the first section of this article ; 
said Inspector shall, during the months of April 
and May, in each year, visit each school prem- 
ises under the jurisdiction of this Board, ascer- 
tain the kind and quantities of fuel required to 
be used for the succeeding season, the quantity 
there on hand on such premises, as near as may 
be, and the conveniences and arrangements for 



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storing and receiving the same, and where such 
conveniences are wanting, to cause the same, in 
each case where practicable, to be supplied, re- 
ceiving for that purpose the directions of the 
School Officers, and to report the facts to the 
Committee on Supplies, who shall thereupon have 
the work done under the direction of the Super- 
intendent of School Buildino;s. 

§ 167. It shall also be the duty of said Inspec- 
tor to keep records of all the fuel inspected, re- 
ceived, and delivered, under his inspection, with 
a separate account of the quantities delivered to 
each school, and take vouchers therefor at the 
time of said deliveries. 

§ 168. The Inspector shall also perform such 
duties appertaining to his office which are not 
hereinbefore specified, as may be assigned to him 
by the Committee on Supplies. 

Article 22. — Depository. 

§ 169. There shall be one G-eneral Depository 
for the city, in which shall be received and 
stored, in such quantities as the demand may 
from time to time warrant, all the various ar- 
ticles, except fuel and sand, purchased under 
contracts made according to law, and known under 
the general name of supplies, the same required 
by the several schools of the city, under the juris- 
diction of the Board of Education, for the use 
of teachers, pupils, &c. 

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§ 170. The Depository shall be situated in the 
Hall of the Board of Education, and shall occupy 
the two front basement rooms, and such portions 
of the adjoining rooms as may be necessary for 
it, or that may be spared for the purpose. 

§ 171. The Depository shall be under the con- 
trol of the aforesaid Committee in general re- 
spects, and in the immediate charge of the Clerk 
of the Board, aided by competent assistants. 

§ 172. The Clerk of the Board shall cause all 
books and other articles to be procured in suit- 
able and sufficient quantities to meet aU prob- 
able demands, under written orders of the Com- 
mittee on Supplies, and see that they are re- 
ceived, examined, and properly disposed of on 
the shelves of the Depository. He shall also see 
that all supplies ordered are delivered at the 
proper time at the various schools, and in good 
order. 

§ 173- A suitable conveyance for the trans- 
mission of supplies to the schools, shall be pro- 
vided under the direction of the Committee 
aforesaid. 

§ 174. A complete system of accounts for the 
Depository shall be adopted by the aforesaid 
Committee, such as shall, in the fullest manner, 
exhibit its operations, the amount of supplies 
furnished to it by the several contractors and 



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dealers, as well as the amount of supplies fur- 
nished to the several wards and schools, both as 
to kind and value, and its books shall be kept 
open at all times to the inspection of the mem- 
bers of the Board of Education and Ward Offi- 
cers. 

§ 175. The Committee shall makeup annually 
a statement of the number of each book, chart, 
or card, supplied to each of the Schools during 
the year, on the first of August, which shall be 
reported to the Board on the first meeting in 
September, and shall be immediately referred to 
the Committee on Course of Studies and School 
Books, which Committee shall, during the month 
of October then next, report to the Board whether 
in their opinion any, and what books, charts, or 
cards, should be stricken off, or added to the list 
of supplies, and whether any and what changes 
should be made in the Course of Studies. 

§ 176. The Committee shall make a detailed 
statement to the Board annually, in the month 
of January, of their transactions for the year, 
giving the amount of purchases, the value of the 
stock on hand, per inventory, the amount of 
supplies furnished to each department or school 
and ward, and the cost per scholar of the same, 
together with a statement of the aggregate cost 
of supplies as compared with the previous year. 

^ 177. The Committee shall provide a suitable 
and properly labelled pass-book for the entry of 
the dealings of every school with the Depository, 



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in which all orders for the supplies shall be writ- 
ten, as hereinafter provided. 

§ 178. The regular days for issuing supplies 
from the Depository in every month shall be 
eight in number, viz. : the first, second, third, 
and fourth Wednesday, and the first, second, 
third, and fourth Friday of each month ; every 
school by this means receiving its supplies once 
in every month. 

§ 179. The following shall be the arrange- 
ments by districts and wards for the stated 
monthly deliveries of supplies to the schools : 

DIST. WARDS. 

1st 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6. 

2d 8, 9, 14. 

3th 7, 10, 13. 

4th 11, 17. 

5th 16, 20, 15. 

6th 18, 21. 

7th 19, 22. 

8th 12. 

§ 180. A Tariff of Supplies shall be prepared, 
based upon the average annual attendance of 
the several schools, which shaU be the standard 
for the ensuing year, and which shall embrace 
the whole quantity of any and every article 
which any school or department may draw from 
the Depository, the same not to be exceeded ex- 
cept in certain contingencies hereinafter provided 
for. 



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§ 181. An supplies ordered for any school 
or department shall be carefully put up for 
delivery, and charged to its account. Should 
there not be in the Depository at the time a sup- 
ply of all the articles ordered, a due-bill for 
what may be deficient shall be delivered with the 
items sent, an entry of the same being regularly 
made in a book kept for the purpose, in which 
shall be subsequently [noted the fact of its re- 
demption. All due-bills shall be redeemable on 
demand. 

§ 182. No supplies shall be delivered at any 
school, except in payment of the due-bills afore- 
said, oftener than once in every month, unless 
so ordered by the Committee on SuppKes in 
a contingency hereinafter referred to, or by 
the Board of Education on the recommendation 
or report of the same Committee, as hereinafter 
provided. 

§ 183. When a demand for supplies shall be 
made by any school or department beyond the 
limit decided in the tariif provided for in section 
eleven, the Clerk of the Board shall at once 
notify the "Ward Officers of the fact that the 
account of that particular school is full. 

§ 184. All biUs of goods purchased for the 

Depository, and approved by the Committee on 

Supplies, shall be paid on the regular pay-days of 

the Board. 

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Regulations for the Schools, * 

§ 185. An accurate Inventory shall be made 
under the direction of the Ward Officers during 
the last week in each year, of the books, slates, 
maps, and all other articles usually embraced 
under the name of supplies, in every school and 
department, within the jurisdiction of the Board 
of Education, — blank forms of Inventory being 
furnished by the Clerk for the purpose,— the 
same when completed to be forwarded to and 
filed in the Clerk's office. This Inventory shall 
designate the three conditions of the supplies on 
hand, in separate columns, viz. : Good, Half- 
worn, and Old. In estimating the stock on 
hand, the whole of the class " Good" shall be 
entered on the list — ^one half the class " Half- 
worn," and one fourth of the class " Old," the 
total being the quantity on hand of each item. 

§ 186. When supplies of any kind are wanted 
for any school or department, they shall be plain- 
ly entered in the Pass-Book provided by the 
Committee, and the list shall be dated, and at- 
tested by the signatm^e of the Principal, and 
counters-igned by the proper officer or Committee 
of the Ward Board, authorized for the pm-pose ; 
the Pass-Book shall then be sent to the Deposi- 
tory, but no order shall be sufficient to obtain 
supplies, unless it bear this evidence of its genu- 
ineness. 

§ 187. Every school or department shall draw 
the supplies needed but once in each month, 



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and on the day assigned to it, and not oftener, 
except in special cases hereinafter provided for. 
A memorandum of the proper days of draft 
shall be printed in the Pass-Book of every 
school. 

§ 188. On the receipt of the articles drawn 
from the Depository, the Principal of each 
school or department shall at once, in the pres- 
ence of the person delivering the same, compare 
each item with their order in the Pass-Book, and 
finding all correct, shall give a receipt therefor in 
a book provided for the purpose. 

§ 189. Li case a due-biU is given for any defi- 
cient item or items or any order, owing to a 
lack of supply temporarily in the Depository, 
the Principal shall be at liberty to send such due- 
bill one or more times through the proper chan- 
nel, until it is redeemed, and before the regular 
monthly day for drawing supplies comes round. 

§ 190. The Pass-Book ' containing orders for 
supplies shall be sent to the Depository in all 
cases two da}^s before the regular day of delivery, 
that is to say, if the regular monthly day of any 
school or department be Wednesday, the Pass- 
Book shall be sent on the preceding Monday; 
and if it be Friday, then on the preceding Wed- 
nesday, careful reference being had before making 
out the order to the stated time of sendino^ it in, 
to avoid nifraction of this rule, and save disap- 
pointment in the receipt of supplies. 



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§ 191. The number and quality of articles 
"which each school shall draw, shall not exceed 
in any year the ratio stated in the general 
scale of supplies to be prepared as aforesaid, and 
based upon the yearly average attendance of 
pupils. 

§ 192. Whenever a school shall have drawn 
the whole quantity of any article or articles 
deemed necessary under these regulations, and 
a loss of supplies in any school or department 
occurs, either from a partial burning of the 
premises, or from robbery, rendering an addi- 
tional allowance necessary, or when an extra 
quantity becomes indispensable by a sudden and 
unusual increase in the attendance of pupils, or 
from the use of supplies by the pupils of the 
Evening Schools, the Board of Ward Officers 
shall refer the subject to the Committee on 
Supplies, with a list of the articles wanted, and 
a statement of the facts, and the Committee 
shall have discretionary power to furnish the 
supplies needed forthvv^ith. 



§ 193. Wlienever a demand is made for sup- 
plies beyond the quantity assigned as aforesaid, 
and none of the reasons referred to in the last 
article exist, or when by reason of the introduc- 
tion by the Board of Education of a new study 
into the schools, a first supply of any book or 
books or other article may become necessary, 
or when said demand is made in consequence of 
the opening or commencement of any new 



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school or department, organized by authority 
of the Board of Education, the Committee on 
Supplies shall consider the subject, and inform 
itself as fully as circumstances will admit, of the 
merits of the case, a,nd report favorably or ad- 
versely upon the application to the next meeting 
of the Board of Education ; and should the 
action of the Board be favorable, the supplies 
shall issue from the Depository forthwith ; but 
if otherwise, the Clerk shall notify the officers of 
the Ward of the fact. 

§ 194. The teachers of the several Grammr 
and Primary Schools under the jurisdiction of 
the Board of Education shall be . required to 
make the proper entries in, and correctly keep 
the School Record Book, entitled, " List of Pu- 
pils, with the number of months which they 
have been taught," so as to show both the 
number of months and the number of days 
which each pupil has been taught, and the 
totals of months and days for every pupil for 
each and every year ; a supply of said books 
to be kept at all times on hand in the Deposi- 
tory, subject to the order of the several schools. 

The Free Academy, Normal Schools, and Evening 
Schools. 

§ 195. The Depository shall keep distinct ac- 
counts with the Free Academy, Normal Schools, 
and Evening Schools, in which shall be entered 
•and charged all supplies drawn by those insti- 
tutions. 



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■ § 196. Any requisition for supplies made by 
the Principal of the Free Academy, which shall 
have been approved by the Executive Commit- 
tee of the same, shall be forwarded to the De- 
pository, and furnished with as little delay as 
possible. 

§ 197. A list of aU supplies needed from time 
to time in the Normal Schools shall be submit- 
ted to the Committee -in charge, and if approved 
by them, shall be sent to the Depository for de- 
livery, with all convenient promptness. 

§ 198. The Principal of each department of 
the Evening Schools needing supplies, shall 
make a requisition upon the Committee on 
Evening Schools, who, approving the same, 
shall in turn forward it to the Depository, and 
the supplies shall be issued and delivered as soon 
as practicable thereafter. 



RULES OF ORDER. 



First. In case the President shall not attend 
at the time appointed for a meeting of the Board, 
the Clerk, on the appearance of a quorum, shall 
call the Board to order, when a President pro 
tern, shall be appointed by the Board for that 
meeting, or until the appearance of the Presi^ 
dent. 

Second. Tlie President may substitute any 
other member to preside in his place, but such 
substitution shall not continue beyond the meet- 
ing at which it shall be made. The President 
shall decide all questions of order, subject to an 
appeal to the Board. 

Thied. "Wlien the Clerk is not present, the 
assistant shall perform his duties at the meeting. 

Fourth. The Clerk shall make a list of the 
resolutions or reports on the table, which shall be 
considered the general orders of the day. 



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Fifth. The order of business at every meeting 
shall be (except when otherwise specially ordered) 
as follows : 

1. Reading the minutes ; immediately after 
the minutes of the Board shall be read and ap- 
proved, at the stated meetings, the minutes of the 
Executive Committee shall be read in the Board 
for the information of the members. 

2. Communications or reports from Ward 
Officers. 

3. Communications or reports from the City 
Superintendent ; Miscellaneous Communications ; 
Resolutions to be referred or passed without ob- 
jection. 

4. Reports of Standing Committees. 

5. Reports of Select Committees. 

6. Motions and Resolutions. 

7. Unfinished business. 

8. Special orders of the day. 

9. General orders of the day. 

After the third order of business, the Board 
shall commence its business where it left off at 
the adjournment of the previous meeting. But 
the regular order of business may at any time be 
suspended by a vote of two thirds of the mem« 
bers present. 

« 

Sixth. All resolutions shall be presented in 
writing, with the name of the mover ; when so 
presented, they shall be read, but shall not be 
considered until seconded ; and papers presented 



sliall he endorsed with s& brief statement of ik^ 
subject Bftatter. 

SETSifns. Motions to refer^ to lay on the ta-^ 
hie, to adjourn, and for the previous ejtiestioii^ 
shall always be i>n order, and except the mo^- 
tion to refer, shall be taken without debate. 
A vote of the Board, ordering the previous^ 
question, shall be taken by ayes and noes^ and 
shall preclude further debate,, but sliall not cut 
off pending amendments, but each pending 
amendment shall be decided m order,, and -by 
ayes and noes, if required, 

Eighth. No member shall withdraiv from tlie' 
Meeting without permission from th« l^resident,^ 

Ninth. Every snember, previous to his speak -^ 
ing, shall rise and address himself to the i*resi^ 
dent* 

Teistth. When two or more members rise a^ 
one time, the President shaU designate which i# 
entitled to the floors 

Eletenth. Na member shall speak more thar? 
twice on the same question, without leave of the 
Board ; nor more than once until every member 
choosing to speak shall have spoken, Nor shalS 
airy member be allowed to speak more than ten 
minutes at any one time, upon any subject under 
consideration, unless by consent of a majority ©f 
ihe members present. 



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Twelfth. Every member who shall be pres- 
ent when a question is put, shall vote for or 
against the same, unless excused by the Board. 

Thirteenth, The ayes and noes upon all 
questions of appropriations of money, shall be 
called and entered upon the minutes, and, on all 
other occasions^ at the request of any member. 

FotrRTEENTH. The Board may refer any mat- 
ter to a Committee of the Whole, and may go 
into a Committee of the Whole at the pleasure 
of the Board. 

Fifteenth. A motion to reconsider a vote 
may be made by any member at the same meet- 
ing, and shall at such meeting be finally disposed 
of; but no vote of reconsideration shall be taken 
more than once on the same question. 

Sixteenth. These rules, except the seventh, 
eleventh, and thirteenth, shall be applicable to 
the Board w^hen in Committee of the Whole. 



INDEX 



Article I. — ^Meetings. 
Section. Page. 

1. Where held, - ^ - 

2. Stated, when held, ------ 

Special, how called, , - _ _ . 9 

3. Hour of, - . 10 

4. Number necessary to form a quorum, at - - 10 

5. Service upon members, of notice of, - - 10 

Article II. — Officers. 

6. List of, 10 

7. Term of, 11 

8. Except President, to continue in ofHce till suc- 

cessors are chosen, - - - - - 11 

Article III. — Elections. 

9. Of Officers, how conducted, - - - - II 
Must be made at stated meetings, > - - 11 
Majority necessary to elect, - - - - 11 

10. School Officers, Clerk to notify of election, - 12 

11. Clerk to furnish list of School Officers to be 

chosen at each election, - - - - 12 

12. Nominations to fill vacancies shall be in writ- 

ing, --------ISJ 



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Section. 

{3. Nominations to lie over one meeting, - • - 13 

14. JSTominations to be referred to Committee on 

Elections, - - . - - - - 13 

Article IV. — Resignations and Removals. 

15. Resignations, manner of, - - - - 13 

16. Removals, how effected, - - - - 13 

17. Neglect to take Oath of Office within fifteen 

days, forfeiture of seat, • - - - - 13 
i8. Absence at three successive meetings, forfeiture 

of seat, - _ - _ _ a _ 14 

Article V. — Committees. 

19. Standing Committees, list of, - - - - 14 

20. Number of members to each, - - - - 15 

21. How elected and appointed, - ■> - - 15 

22. To be appointed annually, - - - - 15 

23. Neglect to attend meetings of Committee, for- 

feiture of membership, - - - - 16 

24. Reports of, how made, - - > - . 16 

25. Proof required in certain cases before, - - 16 
36. Standing committees shall keep minutes, - 16 

Article VI. — Clerk's Office. 

27. Expenditures, clerk shall keep account of, - 16 

28. Shall furnish.quarterly exhibit of expenditures, 17 

29. Shall debit each school with books and supplies 

from Depository, ----- 17 

30. Shall show aggregate expenditure of each "Ward, 17 
3L Shall audit and certify all pay-rolls and other 

bills, «---»-»-. 17 



Article VII. — Payments. 

B2. Pay-Eolls, monthly, for teachers and janitors, - IT 

33. Payments of other salaries, - - - - 18 

34. Bills, semi-monthly, payment of, - - - 19* 

35. Appropriation necessary to payment, - - 1& 

36. Demands, course of, before payment, - -19 
87. Pay-Roils of Evening School teachers, - - IS 

Article VIII. — Teachers. 

38. Teachers and janitors, how engaged, - - 20 
Qualifications required, - - - - - 20 

Salaries of, - - - - - -.-21 

Leave of absence of, - - - - - 21 

Register of attendance of, - - - - 21 

Report of absence of, ----- 21 

Gifts by or to prohibited, except in certain cases, 22 
Principal shall report all violations of rules and 

regulations, ------ 2^ 

Article IX. — Supeeintendents- 

39. Office of, where located, - - - « - 22 

40. Assistant Superintendents, duties of, - - 22 

41. City Superintendent shall grant certificates of 

qualification to teachers, - - - - 2S 

Article X- — Dijties of Committee^. 

42. Finance Committee,- - - - - - 23 

43. Auditing Committee, - - - - - 23 

44. Committee on Sites and School-Houses, - - 24 

45. Committee on "Warming and Ventilation, - - 24 

46. Committee to prepare Annual Report, - - 24 

47. Committee on Annual Estimate, - - - 25 

48. Printing Committee, ----- 25 



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Section. Page. 

49. Number of documents to be presented, - - 25 

50. No Committee shall incur liability, - - - 25 
61. Other Committees, duties of, - - - - 25 

Article XI. — Applications. 

52. Applications for Alterations or Repairs, how 

made, -.------26 

Article XII. — Appointment. 

53. School Moneys, preliminaries to payment of - 26 
School Money, deficiency in, how supplied, - 27 

Article XIII. — Vacations. 

154. Holidays and vacations, - - - - - 27 
Schools closed on special occasions,— - - 28 
Kandali's Island School an exception, - - 28 

Article XIV. — Annual Report. 
§5. Detailed form of, - - - - - - 30 

Article XV.— Miscellaneous. 

56. Residence in New- York, required of pupils, - 31 

57. Majority vote required in appropriations, - - 31 

58. Clerk must notify each Commissioner of all 

meetings, -------31 

59. Changes may be recommended in Rules and 

Regulations, ------ 31 

60. By-Laws not to be altered without report of 

Committee thereon, ----- 33 



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Article XVI. — Free Academy. 
Section. Page. 

61. Executive Committee for Management of, duties 

of, 33 

62. Principal of, duties of, - - - - - 32 
Organization of, - - - - • - 34 

63. Academic affairs, ...... 35 

64. Faculty of, duties of, ----- 35 

65. Professors of, duties of, - - . - - 36 

66. Registrar of, duties of, - - - - - 37 

67. Professors, teachers, &c., of, engagement of, 

terminable at pleasure of either party, - - 37 

68. Annual Report of Faculty of, - - - - 38 

69. Admission of Students, 38 

70. Preliminaries to examination for admission, - 38 

71. Requisites to admission, - - - - - 39 

72. Manner and time of examination, - - - 39 

73. Returns of examination to be made to Faculty, 39 

74. Studies pursued at the Academy, - - - 40 

75. Arrangement of Studies and Text-Books, - 40 
Studies of Introductory Class, - - - 41 
Studies of Freshman Class, - - - 42 
Studies of Sophomore Class, - - - 43 
Studies of Junior Class, - - - - 43 
Studies of Senior Class, - - - - 44 

76. Choice of Studies by Students to be made in 

writing, _»_-._. 45 

77. Classification of Students, - - - - 45 
Recitations and Lectures, in alternation 

with hours of study, - - - . 4^ 

78. Appropriation of Rooms, - - - - 46 

79. Superintendence of Students in Study Rooms, 46 

80. Conduct of Students, - - - - - 47 



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Section. Wage, 

8L Punishments inflicted, - - - - - 47 

S3. Rules of Discipline shall be established, - 47 

83. Class Reports to be kept, - - - - 48 

84. Register of Conduct, - - - - - 48 

85. Suspension of Students, - - - -46 

86. Offending Students to be reported to Principal, 49 

87. Maximum of Merit, how ascertained, - - 49 

88. Maximum of Conduct, how ascertained, - - 49 

89. Merit Rolls, ------- 50 

90. Merit Rolls, how classified, - - - - 50 

91. Merit Rolls to be sent to Parents or Guardian 

of each Student, - - - - - - 60 

92. Penalty for Disorderly Conduct, - - - 50 

93. Diploma promised on leaving Academy with 

good character, - - - - - -51 

94. Vacancies in corps of Tutors to be filled from 

graduates of Academy, - - - - 51 

95. Text Books, how obtained, - - - - 51 

96. Books returned to Register when done with, 51 

97. Examinations, ------ 5^ 

98. Terms and Vacations, ----- 53 

99. Consmencement, - - - ■ - - 53 

100. Degrees, ------- 54 

101. Library, Principal to have free access to, - 54 

102. Professors and Tutors to have access to Li- 

brary, --------54 

103. Students to have access to Library on certain 

conditions, .._--- 54 

104. Library when open to Students, - - 55 

105. Application for Books, how made, - - - 55 

106. No Books to be taken from Library without 

authority of Librarian, - - - - 56 

107. Return of Books to Library, » . •* - 56 



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108. Renewal of Books, ----- 57 

109. Penalties for defacing or losing Books, - - 57 

110. Dismission from Academy, Penalty for not Re- 

turning or paying for lost or damaged Books, 5? 

111. Condition of Library to be reported by Libra- 

rian, --------58 

112. Literary Societies, - - - - - 58 

113. Executive Committee may dissolve any Society 58 

114. Meetings and Rooms appropriated to Societies, 68 

115. Exhibition of Junior Class, - - - - 58 

116. Catalogue, ------- 59 

Artici-e XVII.—Noemal Schools. 

117. For Female Teachers, ----- 59 

118. For Male Teachers, ----- 59 

119. Sessions of, where held, ----- 60 

120. Principal and Teachers of, - - - - 60 

121- Teachers required to attend, - - - - 60 

122- Penalty for not attending, - - - - 60 

123. Executive Committee on, to keep minutes, - 61 

124. Classification of, - - - - - - 61 

125- Duties of Principal of, - - - - - 61 

126. Duties of Teachers of, - - - - - 62 

127. Semi- Annual Examinations of, - - - 62 

128. Diploma, when given, ----- 62 

129. Quarterly Reports by Executive Committee, - 63 

130. Extent of studies as defined by Executive Com- 

mittee, -------63 

131. Penalty for disorderly conduct, - - - 64 

Article XVIII. — Grammar and Primary Schools. 

132. Grades of Schools, - 64 

Grades of Studies, » - » ^ » 65 



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Section. 

Primary Schools, ------ 65 

Grammar Schools, ----- 66 

Grades of Teachers, ----- 67 

Article XIX. — ^Libsakies. 

133. School Libraries to be established, - - - 69 

134. Maximum number of volumes in, - - - 70 

Article XX. — Evening Schools. 

135. To be established in such places as the Board 

of Education shall deem expedient, - - 70 

136. Terms of, 70 

137. Duties and Powers of Executive Committee on 71 

138. Shall prescribe a uniform course of Studies, - 71 

139. Shall Report, at end of each term, on - - 71 

140. Visitation of ------ 72 

141. Recommend discontinuance of, - - - 72 

142. Teachers in -72 

143. Principal Teacher, duties of - - - - 72 

144. Principal Teacher to report monthly, - - 73 

145. Prerequisite to appointment as Teacher in - 73 

146. Sessions of, for Males, - - - - - 73 

147. Hour of opening of doors of - - - 73 

148. Hour of closing of doors of - - - - 73 

149. Time of opening and closing Schools for Fe- 

males, -------74 

150. "No assemblages of Scholars allowed in vicin- 

ity before or after school hours, - - - 74 

151. Admission of Scholars, - - - - 74 

152. Application for admission, - - - - 74 

153. Principal to record, name, age, &c., of pupil, 74 



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154. Seat assigned to pupil, - - - - - 75 

155. ]S"ecessary books and stationery to be fur- 

nished, ----.-> 75 

156. Pupil cannot enter another School without 

written transfer from Principal, - - - 75 

157. Disobedience of Teachers, penalty for, - - 75 

158. Notice of dismissal of pupil to be given 

parents and others, - - - - - 75 

159. Expelled pupil, on reforming, may attend 

again, .---_._ 76 

160. P^ecord of expulsions to be kept by Principal, 76 

161. K"o corporal punishment allowed in, - - 76 

Article XXI. — Supplies. 

162. To be advertised for, and contracts for, award- 

ed to lowest bidders, 76 

163. Fuel to Schools, furnished under direction of 

Committee on Supplies, - - - - 77 

164. Inspector of Fuel to be appointed, - - 77 

165. Inspector of Fuel shall take Oath of Office, - 78 

166. Duties of Inspector of Fuel, - - - 78 

167. Inspector of Fuel shall keep a Record, - - 79 

168. Inspector of Fuel shall perform other necessary 

duties, -------79 

Article X.XII. — Depository. 

169. Design of, - - - - - - - 79 

170. Location of, 80 

171. Under control of Committee on Supplies and 

Clerk, - 80 

173. Clerk's Duties regarding, - - - - 80 



173. Conveyance for the Transmission of Scpplies, 

to be provided, - - - - _ _^ 

174. System of Accounts for, to be adopted, - 

175. Committee to laake Statement annually, &€. - 

176. Committee to make Annual Report on, - 

177. Pass-Book to be provided for each Schoolv " 8^ 

178. Days for issuing Supplies, - - - - @^ 

179. Arrangement by Districts and Wards, - •* S2- 

180. Tariff of Supplies to be provided, - - - 82 

181. Supplies to be carefully puis &p^ - -- - 8c 

182. Supplies delivered but onee a i»on*b, - - 8' 
IS*" Demand fer extra Sapplie's, course of Clerk on, 6 

184. Goods purehased for. when paid for, - - V 

185. Inventory of Supplies on hand to be made an- 

Biaaily in each School, - - " - 84 

WG. Supplies how to be obt^iined, - - - - 84 
X87. Supplies to be Furnished Monthly^ - -84 

188. Receipt to be given by Prinsipa^l for SupplieSjr 85 

189. Duebil! for Suppliea, not in Depository, - " 8^ 

190. Pass-Book for Supplied to bs sent to Depository 

two days in advance, - - - - 8f 
ISl. Kumber and qjuality of article- not to exceed 

latio, --..-■- ^ -- (.. 
19^, Extra Supplies, how to- obtain them,. - - 8 
29S. Other calSs for extra Supplies, - - - 8^ 

194. " Li&t of Pupils,," Teachers' duties respecting, 8 

195. Distinct accounts- to be kept with Free Academy, 

Normal Schools, and Evening Schools - 8'^ 

196. Keq^uisjtions for Supplies by Principal of Free 

Acsdemy^ . » . _ ^ - gS 

197. Su^pplies for Normal Schools, -- - - 88 

198. Supplies for Evening Schools-, - - '88 

Rules of Osdkr, - - - «- „ - 89 



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